Beyond the Final Score : the Politics of Sport in Asia /
"The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 S...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Contemporary Asia in the world.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Purism Versus Politics
- The Argument
- More Than Just National Pride
- Greasing the Wheels of Diplomacy
- The Olympic Facelift
- Catch-22
- The Slippery Slope of Change.
