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Golf masters... or Chinese Chess masters?

The HSBC Masters tournament is starting up tomorrow, and today, the big players were on the China publicity warpath by doing their mandatory "Look at us! We're taking part in Chinese culture!" bit. The part of Shanghaiist that's actually interested in... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Wed, Nov 04 2009

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