Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
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- I. Defining Beijing 2008: Whose World, What Dream?
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II. Precedents and Perspectives
- The Public Diplomacy of the Modern Olympic Games and China’s Soft Power Strategy —
- “A Very Natural Choice”: The Construction of Beijing as an Olympic City during the Bid Period —
- Dreams and Nightmares: History and U.S. Visions of the Beijing Games —
- The Fragility of Asian National Identity in the Olympic Games —
- Journalism and the Beijing Olympics: Liminality with Chinese Characteristics —
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III. Theaters of Representation
- “All Under Heaven”— Megaspace in Beijing —
- From Athens to Beijing: The Closing Ceremony and Olympic Television Broadcast Narratives —
- New Technologies, New Narratives —
- Embracing Wushu: Globalization and Cultural Diversification of the Olympic Movement —
- “We Are the Media”: Nonaccredited Media and Citizen Journalists at the Olympic Games —
- Definition, Equivocation, Accumulation, and Anticipation: American Media’s Ideological Reading of China’s Olympic Games —
- IV. Conclusion
- Author Biographies
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Index
