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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 256–257.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Andrew D. Morris Beijing's Games: What the Olympics Mean to China . By Susan Brownell . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2008 . xv , 213 pp. $72.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 In 1987, the Chinese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 618–620.
Published: 01 May 2009
... States, the Public Archives of Canada, and the People's Republic of China Foreign Ministry Archives in Beijing. With ramifications far beyond sport or Olympic history, Xu's book will interest all who care about the historical destiny of China and its relations with the world. Olympic Dreams: China...
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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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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 (2010) 69 (3): 683–685.
Published: 01 August 2010
... in a hardware-software gulf, and here again, the divergent experiences of the Shanghai expo/Olympics and the Commonwealth Games are germane. India's continued inability to impress with stadia, roads, and other infrastructure point to both its weaknesses and strengths. Its growth can never take off...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 454–456.
Published: 01 May 2019
... at the Greater East Asia Conference of 1943 and postwar Japan's low-key “return to Asia” at the Bandung Conference of 1955; in sports, preparations to host the Tokyo Olympics in 1940 (canceled) and Asia's first Olympics in Tokyo in 1964; and finally Japan's prewar and postwar cultural exchange programs...
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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 (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 (2014) 73 (4): 853–877.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., and complex choreography using technology associated with larger and/or wealthier countries. The Palembang opening ceremony, I was proudly informed, used the same “digital carpet” (i.e., giant, field-covering TV screen) as the Sydney Olympics. The 2009 and 2011 events generated an inclusive, ethnographic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 665–668.
Published: 01 August 2010
.... By way of the three commentaries, the forum takes readers to India—where a large, though not quite Olympics-scale international multisport competition will take place in October—and even further afield, in another break with common JAS practice, to South Africa, where the World Cup finals were held...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 616–618.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Robin Visser Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture . By Jing Wang . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2008 . xiii , 411 pp. $28.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 During the 2008 Olympic Games, NBC...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 205–223.
Published: 01 February 2018
... mega events volunteering In recent years, many Asian countries have seized the opportunity to show off their economic and political powers by hosting mega sport events. For example, China hosted the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and the Asian Games in Guangzhou in 2010, South Korea held...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1136–1138.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Amateur Sports Association and media records, as well as autobiographies and personal accounts, Havens has produced a richly detailed and interesting work of sport history. Running in Japan stands out for numbers alone. Since the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Havens writes, the number of formal (42.195 km...
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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 (2010) 69 (4): 1230–1232.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Charlene Makley The ironic and unfortunate consequence of this is that Smith's account ends up on shared ground with PRC state leaders, those central policy makers who sought to use the Olympic campaign to shore up flagging Chinese Communist Party legitimacy across the PRC ( not just...
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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 (2): 596–599.
Published: 01 May 2010
...” broadcasting of a social event. The images of police beating students greatly moved women; young adults, who had not experienced the suffering of the war, gained a different view of the United States. The featured event of the Tokyo Olympics was the Japanese women's volleyball team. Their winning of the gold...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 101–106.
Published: 01 February 2009
... Olympics would suggest? The forms and rhetoric of law acquire a distinct identity which may, on occasion, inhibit power and afford some protection to the powerless. Only to the degree that this is seen to be so can law be of service … as ideology. —E. P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origins...
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