The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den

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A way of showing the difficulties representing Chinese using the roman alphabet. There are so many homophones that a poem can be written in Chinese employing just one phoneme.
You can listen to the poem in Mandarin and Cantonese using real player which opens outside your browser.

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