China Gold, A Companion to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing: China's Rise to Global Power and Olympic...

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Fan Hong Duncan MacKay

China Gold, A Companion to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing

China's Rise to Global Power and Olympic Glory

Fan Hong, Duncan MacKay, Karen Christensen

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Berkshire Publishing Group
08 November 2021

Asian history; Diplomacy; Olympic games

China Gold: China's Quest for Global Power and Olympic Glory is essential reading for everyone who wants to understand what the Olympics means to China. It was written by Chinese experts in close collaboration with U.S. and European sports writers as a companion to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Like many Games in the 112-year history of the modern Olympics, the 2008 Beijing Games were disparaged by some groups and actively campaigned against by others. The thing made them unique in Olympic history is that they were held in a country that is poised to rise to new prominence on the global stage.

Fourteen years late, the rise to prominence is clear, but China's influence is very much in doubt. The calls for a ""Genocide Games"" boycott refer the Nazi Olympics of 1936.

China has been drawing in, closing itself off from global interaction. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a contributing fact, but it's now a question whether China has any interest in integrating the Olympic ideals into its perspective on global leadership.

China Gold: China's Quest for Global Power and Olympic Glory remains an important introduction to China and its people. There are chapters about economic, social, and environmental issues connected with the Olympics and fascinating stories about individual athletes and political dramas connected with sports, including ""Ping-Pong diplomacy,"" about which Chinese Premier ZHOU Enlai 周恩来 was quoted as saying, ""Never before in history has a sport been used so effectively as a tool of international diplomacy."" It also provides wide-ranging illustrated history of sports in China, including women's sports in ancient China, traditional physical activities like tai chi and wushu, extreme and new sports, and the ascension of elite female athletes.

Edited by: Fan Hong, Duncan MacKay, Karen Christensen
Imprint: Berkshire Publishing Group
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 581g
ISBN: 9781614720218
ISBN 10: 1614720215
Pages: 142
Publication Date: 08 November 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

FAN Hong 凡红 is a professor at the University of Western Australia. She was born in Sichuan and trained as a swimmer in Beijing before pursuing an academic career in the UK. Fan's publications include Sport, Nationalism and Orientalism: The Asian Games (2006). Duncan Mackay is an award-winning British sports journalist. He studied Chinese history and politics at university, and has covered every Olympics since Barcelona 1992. He now writes for the Observer and is publisher and editor of www.insidethegames.com, a website devoted to the Olympic Games. He carried the Olympic torch in London in April 2008. Karen Christensen is a writer and a publisher who has worked with hundreds of sports experts as coeditor of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport and senior editor of the International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports. She is CEO of Berkshire Publishing Group and publisher of Guanxi: The China Letter.