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China: Translating New York Times Olympic Report

Thursday, August 28th, 2008 @ 03:21 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: China, U.S.A.
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Humor, Media, Sport, Language
Languages:: English
Special:: Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

Black and White Cat shows how the Xinhua has translated the New York Times Olympic Report into Chinese.

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