Sport, revolution and the Beijing Olympics /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Sport, Physical Culture, Revolution and the Beijing Olympic Games: An Introduction
- Sport, Physical Culture and Western Faith Invaders
- Sport, Physical Culture, Nationalism and the Chinese Republic
- Socialism, Health, Soviet Sport and the Cultural Revolution
- Reform, Opening Up and Making Sense of Modern Sport in China
- Capitalist Sport, The Beijing Olympics and Human Rights?
- Conclusion: Sport, Social Change and the Public Intellectual.
