鸳鸯蝴蝶派 yuan1 yang hu2 die2 pai4

Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists

Traditional: 鴛鴦蝴蝶派

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English Phonetic: 'mændәrin
Detailed Definition: n. shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia\nn. a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group\nn. any high government official or bureaucrat\nn. a high public official of imperial China