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In their jam-packed house in the Outpost foothills, a couple of blocks behind Sid Grauman’s pseudo-Chinese extravaganza of a movie theater on Hollywood Boulevard, a few modest examples of Merrild’s work would eventually be found.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2020

Carlotta later said that she wanted to build a Chinese house but ran out of money, so “built a sort of pseudo-Chinese house.”

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2018

Visitors wanting a change from local cuisine and hotel food resorted to fast-food chains or pseudo-Chinese diners, where the ubiquitous "chicken Manchurian" provided a spectacular example of the perils of fusion cooking.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a designer of furniture Darly travelled in a dozen years or so from the extremes of pseudo-Chinese affectation to classical severity of the type popularized by the brothers Adam.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various