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China China's Quest for Global Power and Olympic Glory is essential reading for everyone who wants to understand what the Olympics means to China. It was written by Chinese experts in close collaboration with U.S. and European sports writers as a companion to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Like many Games in the 112-year history of the modern Olympics, the 2008 Beijing Games were disparaged by some groups and actively campaigned against by others. The thing made them unique in Olympic history is that they were held in a country that is poised to rise to new prominence on the global stage. Fourteen years late, the rise to prominence is clear, but China's influence is very much in doubt. The calls for a "Genocide Games" boycott refer the Nazi Olympics of 1936. China has been drawing in, closing itself off from global interaction. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a contributing fact, but it's now a question whether China has any interest in integrating the Olympic ideals into its perspective on global leadership. China China's Quest for Global Power and Olympic Glory remains an important introduction to China and its people. There are chapters about economic, social, and env

Author

FAN Hong, Duncan Mackay, Karen Christensen, editors

Publisher

Berkshire Publishing Group

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282114975

Subjects

Sports, History, Anthropology