He’s a freshman at the University of North Carolina. He’s also one of the Chinese translators for ‘The Last Dance’ documentary.
Aiqi Sun is a freshman at the University of North Carolina who recently found himself working through a highly unusual question of translation: How do you say “the Bulls’ traveling cocaine circus" in Mandarin?
As one of the Chinese translators for “The Last Dance," the documentary extravaganza about Michael Jordan’s final season with the Chicago Bulls, Sun was assigned the first episode and took on the challenge of conveying the team’s extracurricular proclivities in another language.
It turned out to be surprisingly universal. “‘Traveling drug circus’ is easy to understand if you’re translating word by word," he