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The Beijing Olympics: Promoting China: Soft and Hard Power in Global Politics book cover

1st Edition

The Beijing Olympics: Promoting China Soft and Hard Power in Global Politics

Edited By Kevin Caffrey Copyright 2011
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge
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The Beijing 2008 Olympic ceremonies were spectacular performances and technological accomplishments by the People’s Republic of China. However, the audience in Beijing was only the most overt element of a global audience receiving the message of the Games. For this global audience, the Beijing performances were a harbinger of wider regional and international ambitions; a message of intent that... Read more

1. Prologue: Beijing 2008 – A Production on Many Levels  Kevin Caffrey  2. Olympic Beijing: Reflections on Urban Space and Global Connectivity  Xuefei Ren  3. ‘Go China! Go!’: Running Fan and Debating Success During China’s Olympic Summer  David J. Davies  4. Olympian Ghosts: Apprehensions and Apparitions of the Beijing Spectacle  Ha Guangtian and Kevin Caffrey  5. ‘Flagging the Nation’ in International Sport: A Chinese Olympics and a German World Cup  David Schrag  6. China in Africa: An Olympics-Charged Re-Engagement  Barbra Lukunka  7. The Beijing Olympics as Indicator of a Chinese Competitive Ethic  Kevin Caffrey  8. Epilogue: Approaches to a Productive Spectacle  Kevin Caffrey

Biography

Kevin Caffrey is a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University. He has conducted anthropological fieldwork in east and southwest China.

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