Building for the Beijing Olympics

Informationen zum Autor J.A.Mangan is an internationally recognised academic with a wide range of publications in the politics of sport at various analytical levels. Dong Jinxia is an expert on Chinese sport with experience as international performer, judge and academic. Zusammenfassung The Beijing Olympics was a political act of assertion. It wass the culmination of political effort going back to 1949. In essence, it was the outcome of dramatic diplomatic, political, cultural, social and economic change born of ideological commitment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Preface: Geopolitical games: Beijing 2008J. A.Mangan 2. Beijing 2008: The Mixed Messages of Contemporary Chinese NationalismJulia Lovell 3. Olympic Aspirations: Chinese Women on Top - Considerations and ConsequencesDong Jinxia and J. A. Mangan 4. Olympian Politics in Beijing: Games! But Not Just GamesKevin Caffrey 5. Dancing around the Elephant: The Beijing Olympics - Taiwanese Reflections and ReactionsJunwei Yu 6. Sport as Public Diplomacy and Public Disquiet: Australia's Ambivalent Embrace of the Beijing Olympics Peter Horton 7. The Dish Might Be Overspiced: Fears! Doubts and Criticisms in French Perceptions of Chinese Olympic and Other SuccessesThierry Terret 8. Creative Tensions: 'Join in London' meets 'Dancing Beijing' - the cultural power of the OlympicsVassil Girginov 9. Preparing to Take Credit for China's Glory: American Perspectives on the Beijing Olympic GamesMark Dyreson 10. Sideshow Beijing 2008: An Absence of Euphoria beyond the Southern CloudsKevin Caffrey

Product details

• Assisted by: Dong Jinxia (Editor), Jinxia Dong (Editor), J. A. Mangan (Editor), J.A. Mangan (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2007
• EAN: 9780415371650
• ISBN: 978-0-415-37165-0
• Series: Sport in the Global Society; Sport in the Global Society
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; China, SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics & Paralympics, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, Olympic & Paralympic games, Olympic and Paralympic games