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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452602003321

Autore

Price Monroe E. <1938->

Titolo

Owning the Olympics : narratives of the new China / / Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2008

ISBN

9786613769497

9781280997884

1280997885

9780472024506

0472024507

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 p.)

Collana

New media world

Disciplina

796.48

Soggetti

Olympics - Political aspects - China

Mass media - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; I. Defining Beijing 2008: Whose World, What Dream?; "One World, Different Dreams": The Contest to Dfine the Beijing Olympics; Olympic Values, Beijing's Olympic Games, and the Universal Market; On Seizing the Olympic Platform; 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

Toward the Future: The New Olympic InternationalismBeyond Media Events: Disenchantment, Derailment, Disruption; Author Biographies; Index