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| Other authors / contributors: | Hwang, Dong-Jhy.
Brennan, Mel.
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| ISBN: | 9781847883735
1847883737
9781845201005
1845201000
9781845201012
1845201019
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-161) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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 and 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 proce.
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| Other form: | Print version: Jarvie, Grant, 1955- Sport, revolution and the Beijing Olympics. English ed. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2008 9781845201005 1845201000
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