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Olympic Dreams - China and Sports, 1895-2008 (Hardcover)
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Olympic Dreams - China and Sports, 1895-2008 (Hardcover)
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Already the world has seen the political, economic, and cultural
significance of hosting the 2008 Olympics in Beijing-in policies
instituted and altered, positions softened, projects undertaken.
But will the Olympics make a lasting difference? This book
approaches questions about the nature and future of China through
the lens of sports-particularly as sports finds its utmost
international expression in the Olympics. Drawing on newly
available archival sources to analyze a hundred-year perspective on
sports in China, Olympic Dreams explores why the country became
obsessed with Western sports at the turn of the twentieth century,
and how it relates to China's search for a national and
international identity. Through case studies of ping-pong diplomacy
and the Chinese handling of various sporting events, the book
offers unexpected details and unusual insight into the patterns and
processes of China's foreign policymaking-insights that will help
readers understand China's interactions with the rest of the world.
Among the questions Xu Guoqi brings to the fore are: Why did Mao
Zedong choose competitive ping-pong to manipulate world politics?
How did the two-China issue nearly kill the 1976 Montreal Olympic
Games? And why do the 2008 Olympics present Beijing with
unprecedented dangers and opportunities? In exploring these
questions, Xu brilliantly articulates a fresh and surprising
perspective on China as an international sport superpower as well
as a new "sick man of East Asia." In Olympic Dreams, he presents an
eloquent argument that in the deeply unsettled China of today,
sport, as a focus of popular interest, has the capacity to bring
about major social changes.
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