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Translation of Olympic Music Video “Beijing Welcomes You” with 88+ stars

We just posted the Olympic Video World of Warcraft edition. Our new contributing editor, Thalia Kwok (aka Chinkerfly), did a great job with a CN Reviews exclusive: translation of the music video AND a scene-by-scene identification of the 88+ movie- and... ...full story at CN Reviews

from CN Reviews on Fri, Aug 01 2008

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