diff --git a/recipes/bbc_chinese.recipe b/recipes/bbc_chinese.recipe
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-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class AdvancedUserRecipe1277443634(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = u'BBC Chinese'
-    oldest_article = 7
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-
-    feeds = [
-        (u'\u4e3b\u9875', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/index.xml'),
-        (u'\u56fd\u9645\u65b0\u95fb',
-         u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/index.xml'),
-        (u'\u4e24\u5cb8\u4e09\u5730',
-         u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/index.xml'),
-        (u'\u91d1\u878d\u8d22\u7ecf',
-         u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/business/index.xml'),
-        (u'\u7f51\u4e0a\u4e92\u52a8',
-         u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/interactive/index.xml'),
-        (u'\u97f3\u89c6\u56fe\u7247',
-         u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/multimedia/index.xml'),
-        (u'\u5206\u6790\u8bc4\u8bba',
-         u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/indepth/index.xml')
-    ]
-    extra_css = '''
-        @font-face {font-family: "DroidFont", serif, sans-serif; src: url(res:///system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf); }\n
-    body {margin-right: 8pt; font-family: 'DroidFont', serif;}\n
-                    h1 {font-family: 'DroidFont', serif;}\n
-                    .articledescription {font-family: 'DroidFont', serif;}
-            '''
-    __author__ = 'rty'
-    __version__ = '1.0'
-    language = 'zh'
-    pubisher = 'British Broadcasting Corporation'
-    description = 'BBC news in Chinese'
-    category = 'News, Chinese'
-    remove_javascript = True
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    encoding = 'UTF-8'
-    conversion_options = {'linearize_tables': True}
-    masthead_url = 'http://wscdn.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/images/1024/brand.jpg'
-    keep_only_tags = [
-        dict(name='h1'),
-        dict(name='p', attrs={'class': ['primary-topic', 'summary']}),
-        dict(name='div', attrs={'class': ['bodytext', 'datestamp']}),
-    ]