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Dec.11 - Overseas visitors will be able to better appreciate the grandeur of the Palace Museum, or the Forbidden City, next year when foreign guides speak to them in their own tongue.
The museum announced Monday that it is seeking 20 expatriates to volunteer as guides before, during and after the Beijing Olympic Games.
"We are the first public museum in China to try to recruit foreign volunteers," Duan Yong, director of the museum's foreign affairs office, told China Daily.
The museum, which was the royal palace during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, drew 8.77 million visitors last year, including 1.5 million foreigners.
The expatriate volunteers it is seeking are those whose native languages are English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish or Arabic; and they should have basic Chinese language skills.
Candidates have to be interested in Chinese culture and be able to volunteer for at least two [1] [2] 下一页
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