fanjinshi
n.— «The central festival topic is named by a peculiar coinage-Fanjinshi, a portmanteau word made of the English “fanzine” and “dojinshi,” Japanese analogue of “Samizdat,” Russian word for an underground public arrangement on which dissident literature was printed and circulated in the Soviet years.» —“Moscow Goes In For Comics” in Moscow, Russia RIA Novosti May 19, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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