Introduction | p. 1 |
Defining Beijing 2008: Whose World, What Dream? | |
"One World, Different Dreams": The Contest to Define the Beijing Olympics | p. 17 |
Olympic Values, Beijing's Olympic Games, and the Universal Market | p. 67 |
On Seizing the Olympic Platform | p. 86 |
Precedents and Perspectives | |
The Public Diplomacy of the Modern Olympic Games and China's Soft Power Strategy | p. 117 |
"A Very Natural Choice": The Construction of Beijing as an Olympic City during the Bid Period | p. 145 |
Dreams and Nightmares: History and U.S. Visions of the Beijing Games | p. 163 |
The Fragility of Asian National Identity in the Olympic Games | p. 185 |
Journalism and the Beijing Olympics: Liminality with Chinese Characteristics | p. 210 |
Theaters of Representation | |
"All Under Heaven"-Megaspace in Beijing | p. 229 |
From Athens to Beijing: The Closing Ceremony and Olympic Television Broadcast Narratives | p. 260 |
New Technologies, New Narratives | p. 284 |
Embracing Wushu: Globalization and Cultural Diversification of the Olympic Movement | p. 307 |
"We Are the Media": Nonaccredited Media and Citizen Journalists at the Olympic Games | p. 320 |
Definition, Equivocation, Accumulation, and Anticipation: American Media's Ideological Reading of China's Olympic Games | p. 346 |
Conclusion | |
Toward the Future: The New Olympic Internationalism | p. 375 |
Beyond Media Events: Disenchantment, Derailment, Disruption | p. 391 |
Author Biographies | p. 403 |
Index | p. 411 |
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