The China Beat has reprinted a version of a paper on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and China’s image, presented at a recent conference at the University of Southern California in January 2009. Below is an excerpt: There was a...
Read MoreFederico Rampini is La Repubblica’s Asia Chief Correspondent and Senior Global Columnist. He was invited at the National University of Seoul, South Korea, to give a lecture on the impact of the global economic crisis on...
Read MoreThe Times gives a dramatic account of drought experienced by farmers in Hebei allegedly brought on by the diversion of their water supplies to Beijing for the Olympics: The blunders began when officials started to worry that...
Read MoreFrom ONI Blog: ONI compared data from the Olympics Main Press Center (MPC) to that from other locations in Beijing, compiling a snapshot of Internet filtering in China leading up to week 1 of the Olympics. Journalists’ access is...
Read MoreFor the National Post, Joshua Kurlantzick looks at how rural citizens are viewing the Olympics: Not surprisingly, for many of these rural dwellers the Games might be an interesting distraction on TV, rather than a source of...
Read MoreJonathan Haynes reports in the Guardian: Five people have been detained by police at the Olympics games in Beijing today after unfurling a banner in protest at China’s human rights record in Tibet. Briton Philip Kirk, 24,...
Read MoreGeremie R. Barmé is a professor of Chinese history at The Australian National University. He writes in the ChinaBeat blog: Far in advance of this the ceremony designers created a digital mock up of the fireworks so that TV...
Read MoreFrom blogtd.org: Captions translated: – Why do you look so down, young man? – I could not get tickets for the Olympic games, so depressing. – It’s the same as watching it on TV here. It is on a super...
Read MoreJonathan Fenby writes in the Times: Apart from the Communist Party’s stake in the event, Chinese patriotism, which has a resonance rarely encountered in Europe these days, is aroused, something seen in the visceral...
Read MoreFollowing photos are all over Chinese blogs, BBS and video–sharing sites: From Xinhua: The first full dress rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games was held in secret at the National Stadium on...
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