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'Dia' a new English word?: From FEER's blog:

We’re not sure whether to treat this as credible, but Sina.com and Xinhuanet are reporting that the Oxford English Dictionary has added one of our favorite Chinese words, 嗲 or dia, as an import to the English language.

Maybe The First (the Xinhuanet link) got hoaxed: see this blog post from April, 2007.

Cult Rev vocabulary and Tîbet: Channel 4's Lydsey Hilsum looks at the government's use of hoary old words with Cultural Revolution associations to talk about Tîbet.

See also: Private argot in the public sphere, a previous Danwei post on the currency of CR language.