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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover13;
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Chronology
- 1 Purism Versus Politics
- 2 The Argument
- 3 More Than Just National Pride
- 4 Greasing the Wheels of Diplomacy
- 5 The Olympic Facelift
- 6 Catch-22
- 7 The Slippery Slope of Change
- Postscript
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
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