...Jennifer Hubbert The Olympic games have long served as a platform for political debate and ideological expression, and the 2008 Beijing games were no exception. The United States Olympic team selection of “Lost Boy of Sudan” and Team Darfur spokesperson Lopez Lomong as its flag bearer made...

...Noriko Aso 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Sumptuous Re-past: The 1964 Tokyo Olympics Arts Festival Noriko Aso In his well-known 1967 work The Society of the Spectacle Guy Debord sug- gested that “the spectacle is not a collection of images...

... Hubbert is assistant professor of anthropology and director of East Asian studies at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. Her related articles on the Beijing Olympics include “Of Menace and Mimicry: The 2008 Beijing Olympics” in Modern China (2013...

... the much waited Olympic Games”288 and “supported the Olympics from day one.”289 He stated that “I have been a supporter of China’s right to host the Olympics from the very beginning”290 and claimed that “he always supported China’s bid...

.... These are nothing anyone would take seriously. But in today’s China, illusive courteous words from the mouth of an honorable guest are considered signi cant (explaining China’s willingness to spend billions of dollars to host the Olympics in order...

... that are increasingly contract based and without the benefits of full-time employment (and also, probably not coincidental to the galvanization of movement, increasingly male in composition, though still predominantly female).7 The Olympics, Expo 1970...

... that distinguishes civilization from barbarism, and China from the rest of the world. We saw such popular passions erupt again in 2008, when Chinese citizens came out in force to defend the Olympic torch relay’s international “Jour- ney...

..., one each from the United States, (South) Korea, Taiwan, and Okinawa (fig. 5). A comparison can be made here with the lighting of the “sacred flame” (seika)at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics by a young man, Sakai Yoshinori, born...

... 2009, half a year after the museum's opening. Shin, also an artifact donor and member of several museum planning committees, was corroborating the curator's explanation that, thanks to societal liberalization and deregulation following the 1988 Seoul Olympics, advertising has become free to engage...

... 2008 was an eventful year for the People’s Republic of China. The made-­for-­TV global spectacle of the Beijing Olympics, preceded by govern- mental efforts in combating natural disasters like the January – February snowstorm and the Sichuan...

... after Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympic Games, hundreds of thousands of Chinese rushed to celebrate at Tiananmen, breaking the police cordon around the square and forcing an impromptu appearance of General Secretary Jiang Zemin...

... protests of 2008, following the debacle in Paris surrounding the Olympic torch relay, as will be Qiu ∣∣ Go Baobao! 153 discussed in more detail below. The domestic anger against France, and sin...

... and their visual accoutrements as central to the city's development. For instance, in 2009, a music album and an accompanying theatrical play were released by NGO A to mark the occasion of the Beijing Olympics. This landmark occasion had been harnessed by the state as a high-profile branding strategy to promote...

... Olympics as a powerful public topos where history is to be redeemed and the nation reimagined as homogeneous, harmonious, and culturally unique. In the increasingly com- modified setting of the 1960s, writer and public intellectual Et¯o Jun laments...

...- pics: Global Citizenship and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games,” sharply upbraids the “good international citizenship” model of human rights used as leverage in 2008 against Chinese governance yet situates herself in a critique of the People’s...

... level and, hence, the line between moral imagery and practical power. For example, I finished interviewing in Zouping and Fengjia in August 1992, shortly after the conclusion of the Summer Olympics. Over the course of the games...

...- nited the entire society’s surging fervor (“Burst out of Asia and head for the world”) for Chinese soccer.And sports, a national institution whose ideolog- ical efficacy was corroborated in the hosting of the 1990 Asian Olympics and bidding...

.... Naturally there is in all of this an element of the inexplicable that incites shock and discomfort, lling people with insecurity and fear. The chaos surrounding the transmission of the Olympic ame was one of the signs of this insecurity and fear...

... parents, unlike the older youth who spent more time in public places. This generation was born in the affluent era of the late 1980s, around the time of the Asian Olympics (1986) and the Seoul Olympics (1988). In 1985, fami- lies with a single...

... government invitation to provide linguistic services for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Li personally helped to translate several slogans promoting the event as well as designed and led a series of trainings for translators and volunteers. In August 2008, he held the Olympic Torch in Urumqi. The 2008...