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Beloved Belgian cartoon reporter Tintin is getting a makeover in China thanks to a new, more faithful Mandarin translation of his adventures.

Wang Bingdong, who first discovered Herge’s comic strip hero in 2001 at the age of 66, spent three years penning the new version of 22 Tintin books — a painstaking task he says was a pure delight.

“I really found myself feeling happy as I was translating — I felt younger with Tintin and the other members of the Tintin family by my side every day,” Wang told AFP with a grin.

The new Chinese edition includes nearly all of Tintin’s stories — “Tintin in the Land of the Soviets” was deemed too anti-communist by the country’s censors for its criticism of the Soviet Union.

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