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- ↑ SF Weekly feature article
- ↑ Time Out Hong Kong Archived February 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "City Weekend, Beijing". Archived from the original on 2010-01-25. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
- ↑ Inthemix.com.au [ permanent dead link ]
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