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Title The Beijing Olympics : promoting China : soft and hard power in global politics / edited by Kevin Caffrey
Published Abingdon, Oxon. ; New York : Routledge, [2011]
©2011

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Description xv, 156 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Series Sport in the Global Society : Historical Perspectives series
Contents Prologue: Beijing 2008: a production on many levels / Kevin Caffrey -- Olympic Beijing: reflections on urban space and global connectivity / Xuefei Ren -- 'Go China! Go!': running fan and debating success during China's Olympic summer / David J. Davies -- Olympian ghosts: apprehensions and apparitions of the Beijing spectacle / Ha Guangtian and Kevin Caffrey -- 'Flagging the nation' in international sport: a Chinese Olympics and a German World Cup / David Schrag -- China in Africa: an Olympics-charged re-engagement / Barbra Lukunka -- The Beijing Olympics as indicator of a Chinese competitive ethic / Kevin Caffrey -- Epilogue: approaches to a productive spectacle / Kevin Caffrey
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Olympic Games (29th : 2008 : Beijing, China) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001038783
Subject Olympics -- Political aspects -- China.
SUBJECT China -- Foreign relations -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007002707
Author Caffrey, Kevin.
ISBN 0415593980 (hbk.)
9780415593984 (hbk.)
OTHER TI International journal of the history of sport