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Olympic Dreams: China And Sports, 18952008,Used
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Already the world has seen the political, economic, and cultural significance of hosting the 2008 Olympics in Beijingin 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 sportsparticularly as sports finds its utmost international expression in the Olympics.Drawing on newly available archival sources to analyze a hundredyear 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 Chinas search for a national and international identity. Through case studies of pingpong diplomacy and the Chinese handling of various sporting events, the book offers unexpected details and unusual insight into the patterns and processes of Chinas foreign policymakinginsights that will help readers understand Chinas interactions with the rest of the world.Among the questions Xu Guoqi brings to the fore are: Why did Mao Zedong choose competitive pingpong to manipulate world politics? How did the twoChina 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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