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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 a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Berg Publishers,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (176 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781847883735 1847883737 |