China's Communist Party prides itself on internal discipline -- and that usually means knowing who's boss. But in one province in southern China, cadres would rather you didn't make their rank quite so obvious.

In Guangdong, party officials have instructed the rank and file not to use "boss" or "big guy" (dai lou or lou ban in Cantonese) when addressing supervisors, saying that such terms disturb the party's "internal democracy."

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