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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 256–257.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Andrew D. Morris Brownell is not the first author to overplay her hand, though; this is still a very useful volume for anyone wishing to understand “China's Olympic Dream” from both the inside and out. There are also moments when the book seems to read too much like an apology...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 599–608.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Kate McDonald Abstract In March 2020, Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, the Tokyo Olympic Organising Committee, and the International Olympic Committee postponed the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for one year. The delay is the most prominent consequence of the COVID-19 crisis in Japan thus far. But the “Corona...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 618–620.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Gao Yunxiang Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895–2008 . By Xu Guoqi . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2008 . xi , 377 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 With the spectacle of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games...
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in “Is Peking Man Still Our Ancestor?”—Genetics, Anthropology, and the Politics of Racial Nationalism in China
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2017
Figure 2. On August 8, 2008, the Olympic torch relay's route in the Beijing area started in Zhoukoudian, where a daylong mass rally was organized with various patriotically themed activities. The bronze head statue projects facial features of Peking Man. Feng Gong, the torch bearer, is a popular
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 359–369.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Stanley Rosen Abstract Having put a very successful Olympics in the rearview mirror, China entered 2009 with a set of new challenges, brought on in part by the worldwide economic crisis and the resulting demands to ensure necessary employment levels and in part by the familiar issue of maintaining...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 99–113.
Published: 01 June 1964
... and of hosts representing the village where the jātra is held. Comparison of the jātra with such cultural features as the American county fair, the Creek Indian ball game, the Olympic games, the Mexican fiesta, Pueblo Indian ceremonials, and medieval European tournaments may well, at a later date, make...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 347–357.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Pranab Bardhan Abstract The world's two most populous countries each made international headlines in 2008, thanks to the Sichuan earthquake and Beijing Olympics, the Mumbai terror attacks, and reports of how the global financial crisis affected the Chinese and Indian economies. However, China...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 683–685.
Published: 01 August 2010
... The hoopla, the sparkling “new clothes” for the host city, the chest-thumping sense of nationalism that pervades the event: there is much about Shanghai in 2010 that is reminiscent of Beijing in 2008. The ritualistic and political functions served by the World Expo mirror those of the Olympic Games, even...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 454–456.
Published: 01 May 2019
... they intended to bring commerce, civilization, and Christianity to the rest of the world. All the nations that have hosted the modern Olympics cannot escape from the same guilt as the Japanese for politicizing sports on the international stage. Today, if one were to cast a wider net, those who support China's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 853–877.
Published: 01 November 2014
... striking and surprising. Immediately familiar from larger sporting mega-events, including the Asian Games, Olympics, and football World Cup, the narrative of national conquest also paralleled the structural rhythm of previous SEA Games—notably the two events immediately preceding Myanmar 2013 in Laos...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 665–668.
Published: 01 August 2010
... role in two World's Fair-like events (a 1910 national exhibition and the 2010 World Expo that is still, as I write this foreword, in its first week), it does not focus only on that country. By way of the three commentaries, the forum takes readers to India—where a large, though not quite Olympics-scale...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 205–223.
Published: 01 February 2018
... 189 : 144 –61. China.com.cn . 2008 . “Yayun liyi xiaojie chiliang biaozhunbubiaozhun, guanfang biaozhun chulu” [Official rules on Beijing Olympics’ ceremonial volunteers’ qualities]. February 20. http://big5.china.com.cn/culture/txt/2008-02/20...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 616–618.
Published: 01 May 2009
... with “Chineseness,” no longer manifested as combative anti-imperialism but as a celebration of synergy as “abundance” (p. 110). Indeed, one could argue a celebratory spirit of “Chineseness” as “abundance” was on display at the Beijing Olympics, and stands in stark contrast to discourses of Chinese modernity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1136–1138.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., and the tragic Tsuburaya Kōkichi to the outspoken, controversial first professional female distance runner Arimori Yūko, the media star Tanigawa Mari, and the early twenty-first-century Olympic marathon gold medalists Takahashi Naoko and Noguchi Mizuki—do a great deal to illustrate, if not interpret...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1020–1022.
Published: 01 November 1996
... that transpire within Korean society. Larson designates the 1980s as the period in which South Korea achieved its telecommunications revolution, which was exemplified by the successful completion of the Seoul Olympics in 1988 the "world's biggest television event to date" (p. 209)- Larson also cites other events...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 687–690.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., with perceptions of a decline of political morals, the incapacity of the state to carry out projects, and the fraying of civil society. While mega-events such as the Beijing Olympics and the Commonwealth Games in Delhi this year overtly appeal to notions of national glory, it is a moot question what order...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (2): 371–372.
Published: 01 May 1990
... the evolution of China's policy orientation toward six select INGOs the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Universal Esperanto Association (UEA), the International Association of Poets...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1230–1232.
Published: 01 November 2010
... to produce the first book-length analysis in English of the unprecedented, widespread unrest that broke out among Tibetans in the People's Republic of China (PRC) during that country's tumultuous Olympic year (2008–2009). The book is organized in five (too) long main chapters, four of which lay out key...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 101–106.
Published: 01 February 2009
... on display during the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics would suggest? In their sensitive, sustained comparative meditation on the “rule of law” in India and China, Jonathan Ocko and David Gilmartin open temptingly many possible pathways for discussion. In this necessarily brief response...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 596–599.
Published: 01 May 2010
... among intellectuals and the public's responses. In the latter chapters, Chun makes his own position clear: “Hundred Million Idiots” is too arbitrary a judgment. The royal wedding, the Anpo protests, the Tokyo Olympics, the university riots, and the hostage “drama” were all major media events...
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