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Education ministry to blend poetry and music

INSPIRED by a hit song, the Ministry of Education will set the poems in school textbooks to music in an effort to make them more popular among students. The program will begin on August 10 and last five days in... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Tue, Jul 28 2009

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