Your point? The average Chinese dictionary is much worse, it seems to me. The popular 现代汉语词典, for example, quotes liberally from the collected speeches of Chairman Mao. Similarly, China's version of the OED, the 汉语大词典, is no better, as many of its entries' example sentences appear to have been written during the worst years of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Indeed, after perusing a few Chinese dictionaries, you'd be forgiven for believing that present-day China is still all about class struggle and resisting U.S. imperialism. (On second thought, given some of the things I've read in the Chinese press recently about "hostile foreign forces," the renewed emphasis on "public opinion channeling," and, most recently, the need for students and parents to inform on wayward teachers, perhaps China hasn't moved quite so far away from the mentality of the Mao years as we once thought.)

VL:

There is no big point, it's just amusing that the dictionary uses such a dated reference.

So what if the average Chinese dictionary is worse? Does everything have to be compared to the lowest common denominator?