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Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics

By Grant Jarvie , Dong-Jhy Hwang , Mel Brennan

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
9781845201005, 1845201000, 1845201019, 9781845201012, 9781847883735
Open Library ID
OL11911556M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
631 kB (646021 bytes)
Pages
288\176
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes--most notoriously the Nazis in 1936. What has led to this perception and is it fair? Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics is a cultural history of sport in China that challenges many such ingrained Western assumptions. The authors unpick the relationship of sport to imperialism and revolution and examine its significance in both China and Taiwan at governmental and everyday levels. In the process they successfully debunk harmful myths, such as the prevalence of drugs in Chinese sport among women athletes, and present a balanced view that is a much-needed corrective to popular understanding.

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