Download or read book China on the Eve of the Olympics written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China on the Eve of the Olympics written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China on the eve of the Olympics: hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, July 23, 2008.
Download or read book Owning the Olympics written by Monroe Price and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2008-02-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the Olympics tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of 'media events' by analyzing the mega-event of the information age: the Beijing Olympics. . . . A good read from cover to cover." —Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, Asian/Middle Eastern Cultures & Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University From the moment they were announced, the Beijing Games were a major media event and the focus of intense scrutiny and speculation. In contrast to earlier such events, however, the Beijing Games are also unfolding in a newly volatile global media environment that is no longer monopolized by broadcast media. The dramatic expansion of media outlets and the growth of mobile communications technology have changed the nature of media events, making it significantly more difficult to regulate them or control their meaning. This volatility is reflected in the multiple, well-publicized controversies characterizing the run-up to Beijing 2008. According to many Western commentators, the People's Republic of China seized the Olympics as an opportunity to reinvent itself as the "New China"---a global leader in economics, technology, and environmental issues, with an improving human-rights record. But China's maneuverings have also been hotly contested by diverse global voices, including prominent human-rights advocates, all seeking to displace the official story of the Games. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from Chinese studies, human rights, media studies, law, and other fields, Owning the Olympics reveals how multiple entities---including the Chinese Communist Party itself---seek to influence and control the narratives through which the Beijing Games will be understood. digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.
Download or read book China on the Eve of the Olympics written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Owning the Olympics written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the moment they were announced, the Beijing Games were a major media event and the focus of intense scrutiny and speculation. In contrast to earlier such events, however, the Beijing Games are also unfolding in a newly volatile global media environment that is no longer monopolized by broadcast media. The dramatic expansion of media outlets and the growth of mobile communications technology have changed the nature of media events, making it significantly more difficult to regulate them or control their meaning. This volatility is reflected in the multiple, well-publicized controversies characterizing the run-up to Beijing 2008. According to many Western commentators, the People's Republic of China seized the Olympics as an opportunity to reinvent itself as the "New China"--A global leader in economics, technology, and environmental issues, with an improving human-rights record. But China's maneuverings have also been hotly contested by diverse global voices, including prominent human-rights advocates, all seeking to displace the official story of the Games. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from Chinese studies, human rights, media studies, law, and other fields, Owning the Olympics reveals how multiple entities-including the Chinese Communist Party itself-seek to influence and control the narratives through which the Beijing Games will be understood"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Beijing s Games written by Susan Brownell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is hosting the Olympic Games so important to China? What is the significance of a quintessential symbol of Western civilization taking place in the heart of the Far East? Will the Olympics change China, or will China change the Olympics? Susan Brownell sets the historical and cultural contexts for the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games by placing it within the context of China's hundred-year engagement with the Olympic movement to illuminate what the Games mean to China and what the Beijing Olympic Games will mean for China's relationship with the outside world. Brownell's deeply informed analysis ranges from nineteenth-century orientalism to Cold War politics and post-Cold War "China bashing." Drawing on her more than two decades of engagement in Chinese sports, the author presents evocative stories and first-person accounts to paint a human picture of the passion that many Chinese people feel for the Olympic Games. It will also be essential reading for journalists and sports enthusiasts who want to understand the fascinating story behind the Beijing Olympics.
Download or read book China s Great Leap written by Minky Worden and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from some of the most well respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China’s Great Leap examines the People’s Republic of China as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games. When Beijing first sought the Games, China was still recovering from the upheavals of Maoist rule and adapting to a market revolution. Today, China wants to engage with the outside world—while fully controlling the engagement. How will the new leaders in Beijing manage the Olympic process and the internal and external pressures for reform it creates? China’s Great Leap will illuminate China’s recent history and outline how domestic and international pressures in the context of the Olympics could achieve human rights change. Learn about key areas for human rights reform and how the Olympics could represent a possible great leap forward for the people of China and for the world.
Download or read book Marrow of the Nation written by Andrew D. Morris and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-09-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book China Readies for Its Close up written by Linn Weiss and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of China's 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the country is now fast-tracking its preparations for an expected 10,500 athletes and two million visitors. But global headlines cite China's unsafe product exports, regional corruption, and an eco-crisis from coal-fired plants and rising carbon-dioxide levels. Beijing's pollution in spring 2007 was the worst in seven years. Can the city clean up quickly for the gathering of the world's best athletes in summer 2008? On a more mundane but vital point will Beijing's notorious squat-toilets be replaced in time with spiffed-up public restrooms? More generally, what will foreign visitors find in China this summer? Where will they go? Stay? Dine? How will foreign visitors handle the large crowds? The Mandarin-only signage? And if they venture to Tibet, what about the high-altitude sickness that can accompany visits there? For nearly a month in 2007, author Linn Weiss visited Tibet, China's classic cities (Beijing, Chengdu, Guilin, Shanghai, Suzhou and Xi'an), and Hong Kong/Macao all favored destinations for the 2008 tourist assault. His travel commentator's aim: To observe " China on the eve" of its playing Olympics host then compile day-to-day personal surprises and challenges and, most usefully, key tips for travelers venturing there. What follows in this lively, humorous traveler's memoir is part-insider reportage (the author's daughter recently attended Beijing Film Academy on a scholarship grant, with interesting Chinese-film-industry contacts and insights). It's also regular visitor reportage (the author's small group crisscrossed China several times on an exciting journey involving various "special access" permissions). "All of China is one massive construction site right now," Amanda Weiss repeatedly warned her author/father as he made final trip preparations. "When you visit, be careful where you step!" Heading to China, author Linn Weiss wanted to see exactly how the Beijing Olympics were being wrought, and what foreign visitors will likely encounter when they arrive. Through their 5,000 years of history, the Chinese have been noted for their massive feats of engineering. But the full glare of global media scrutiny is less than a half-year away. Challenges and obstacles remain. Will China be ready at the Summer Games to face the cameras? The 2008 Olympics are soon approaching. Under the klieg lights of world attention, China is readying for its close-up. The whole world is watching. More than anything, the Olympics spirit extols human dignity in sports competition. Will China take this opportunity to prove that it truly has advanced as far as it claims? China Readies For Its Close-Up provides page-after-page of provocative daily insights, intriguing travel tips and evocative landscapes for would-be visitors with more than 100 beautiful color photo images of a vibrant China and its indomitable people now undergoing major transition.
Download or read book When the Party Ends written by Shing Huei Peh and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marrow of the Nation written by Andrew D. Morris and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1907, staff at the Tianjin YMCA were rallying their Chinese charges with the cry: When will China be able to send a winning athlete to the Olympic contests? When will China be able to invite all the world to Peking for an International Olympic contest? Nearly a century later, on the eve of China's first-ever Olympic games, this innovative book shows for the first time how sporting culture and ideology played a crucial role in the making of the modern nation-state in Republican China. A landmark work on the history of sport in China, Marrow of the Nation tells the dramatic story of how Olympic-style competitions and ball games, as well as militarized forms of training associated with the West and Japan, were adapted to become an integral part of the modern Chinese experience.
Download or read book The Beijing Olympics Promoting China written by Kevin Caffrey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 pointed to a larger Chinese plan to a degree not seen since the Ming dynasty. New Chinese ambitions embrace both soft power and hard power. The actor in this political drama of international scope is the Chinese state and its political ambitions on the world stage. The Beijing Olympics can be seen as its opening act, and the audience as global. Rather than the kind of "morality" play that is typically used in China to educate the people in politics, this new production – a production on many levels – was one aimed at audiences all around the world, and one that was a calculated expression of realpolitik. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Download or read book Owning the Olympics written by Monroe Price and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the moment they were announced, the Beijing Games were a major media event and the focus of intense scrutiny and speculation. In contrast to earlier such events, however, the Beijing Games are also unfolding in a newly volatile global media environment that is no longer monopolized by broadcast media. The dramatic expansion of media outlets and the growth of mobile communications technology have changed the nature of media events, making it significantly more difficult to regulate them or control their meaning. This volatility is reflected in the multiple, well-publicized controversies characterizing the run-up to Beijing 2008. According to many Western commentators, the People's Republic of China seized the Olympics as an opportunity to reinvent itself as the "New China"--A global leader in economics, technology, and environmental issues, with an improving human-rights record. But China's maneuverings have also been hotly contested by diverse global voices, including prominent human-rights advocates, all seeking to displace the official story of the Games. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from Chinese studies, human rights, media studies, law, and other fields, Owning the Olympics reveals how multiple entities-including the Chinese Communist Party itself-seek to influence and control the narratives through which the Beijing Games will be understood"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book China Readies for Its Close Up written by Linn Weiss and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of China's 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the country is now fast-tracking its preparations for an expected 10,500 athletes and two million visitors. But global headlines cite China's unsafe product exports, regional corruption, and an eco-crisis from coal-fired plants and rising carbon-dioxide levels. Beijing's pollution in spring 2007 was the worst in seven years. Can the city clean up quickly for the gathering of the world's best athletes in summer 2008? On a more mundane but vital point will Beijing's notorious squat-toilets be replaced in time with spiffed-up public restrooms? More generally, what will foreign visitors find in China this summer? Where will they go? Stay? Dine? How will foreign visitors handle the large crowds? The Mandarin-only signage? And if they venture to Tibet, what about the high-altitude sickness that can accompany visits there? For nearly a month in 2007, author Linn Weiss visited Tibet, China's classic cities (Beijing, Chengdu, Guilin, Shanghai, Suzhou and Xi'an), and Hong Kong/Macao all favored destinations for the 2008 tourist assault. His travel commentator's aim: To observe " China on the eve" of its playing Olympics host then compile day-to-day personal surprises and challenges and, most usefully, key tips for travelers venturing there. What follows in this lively, humorous traveler's memoir is part-insider reportage (the author's daughter recently attended Beijing Film Academy on a scholarship grant, with interesting Chinese-film-industry contacts and insights). It's also regular visitor reportage (the author's small group crisscrossed China several times on an exciting journey involving various "special access" permissions). "All of China is one massive construction site right now," Amanda Weiss repeatedly warned her author/father as he made final trip preparations. "When you visit, be careful where you step!" Heading to China, author Linn Weiss wanted to see exactly how the Beijing Olympics were being wrought, and what foreign visitors will likely encounter when they arrive. Through their 5,000 years of history, the Chinese have been noted for their massive feats of engineering. But the full glare of global media scrutiny is less than a half-year away. Challenges and obstacles remain. Will China be ready at the Summer Games to face the cameras? The 2008 Olympics are soon approaching. Under the klieg lights of world attention, China is readying for its close-up. The whole world is watching. More than anything, the Olympics spirit extols human dignity in sports competition. Will China take this opportunity to prove that it truly has advanced as far as it claims? China Readies For Its Close-Up provides page-after-page of provocative daily insights, intriguing travel tips and evocative landscapes for would-be visitors with more than 100 beautiful color photo images of a vibrant China and its indomitable people now undergoing major transition.
Download or read book The Rise of China U S International Cooperation in Higher Education written by Christopher J. Johnstone and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In each chapter of The Rise of China-U.S. International Cooperation in Higher Education: Views from the Field, scholars, leaders, and practitioners describe the theoretical and practical implications of partnerships between higher education institutions in China and the U.S.
Download or read book Documenting the Beijing Olympics written by D.P. Martinez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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? Which ‘clashes’ were highlighted and how? What sorts of stories did the notion of ‘human interest’ generate? Did politics take a backseat or was the topic highlighted repeatedly? Thus, the focus was not on the success or failure of this event, but on the ways in which the Olympics Games, as international and historic events, are memorialised by observers. The key question that this book addresses is: How far would the Olympic coverage fall into the patterns of representation that have come to dominate Olympic reporting and what would China, as a discursive subject, bring to these patterns? This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Download or read book Wealth and Power written by Orville Schell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.
