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Beyond the Final Score : the Politics of Sport in Asia.
The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seoul G...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia University Press
2009.
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| Colección: | Contemporary Asia in the world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seoul Games? Or was Beijing in 2008 more like Berlin in 1936, when Germany took advantage of the global spotlight to promote its political ideology at home and abroad? Beyond the Final Score takes an original look at the 2008 Beijing games within the context of the politics of sport i. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (200) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231519298 023151929X 0231154917 9780231154918 9786613007728 6613007722 |