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1. Documenting the Beijing Olympics

   Edited by D.P. Martinez, Kevin Latham

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics – ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word – and the meanings generated by such representations. What were the ‘key’ stories and how were they chosen? What was dramatised? Who were the heroes?...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
2. Consuming China

   Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China

   Edited by Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson, Jakob Klein

   Series: ConsumAsian Series

   Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates this characterization by examining the cultural significance of consumption and consumerism in the People’s Republic of China today. In questioning the notion of...

   Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge