China's great leap : the Beijing games and Olympian human rights challenges
An essential book for understanding China on the cusp of the Olympics, China's Great Leap draws on the expertise of many of the world's leading China experts. These writers examine the People's Republic of China today as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games. When Beijing first sought the Games, China was still recovering from the upheavals of Maoist rule and adapting to a market revolution. Today China wants to engage with the outside world-while fully controlling the engagement. How will the new leaders in Beijing manage the Olympic process and the internal and external pressures for reform it creates? China's Great Leap will illuminate China's recent history and outline how domestic and international pressures in the context of the Olympics could achieve human rights change. Learn about key areas for human rights reform and how the Olympics could represent a possible great leap forward for the people of China and for the world. With contributions from Joseph Amon, Bao Tong, Frank Ching, Jerome A. Cohen, Arvind Ganesan, R. Scott Greathead, Han Dongfang and Geoffrey Crothall, Sharon Hom, John Kamm, Phelim Kine, Jimmy Lai, Liu Xiaobo, Martin Lee, Christine Loh, Emily Parker, Kenneth Roth, Sophie Richardson, Mickey Spiegel, Wang Dan, and Dave Zirin. As Media Director of Human Rights Watch, Minky Worden monitors crises, wars, human rights abuses, and political developments in more than seventy countries worldwide. From 199298, Worden lived and worked in Hong Kong as an adviser to Democratic Party chairman Martin Lee. Worden is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, speaks Cantonese and German, and is an elected member of the Overseas Press Club's Board of Governors. She is the co-editor of Torture: Does It Make Us Safer? Is It Ever Ok? A Human Rights Perspective
Print Book, English, ©2008
Seven Stories Press 1st ed View all formats and editions
Seven Stories Press, New York, ©2008
303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
9781583228432, 1583228438
182529159
A lever for change in China / Nicholas Krostof
Overview: China's race for reform / Miky Worden
From Mao to now: three tumultuous decades / Frank Ching
The promise of a people's Olympics / Sharon K. Hom
The ghosts of Olympics past / Dave Zirin
Olympian changes: Seoul and Beijing / Richard Pound
Five Olympic rings, thousands of handcuffs / Wang Dan
Physical strength, moral poverty / Jimmy Lai
A gold medal in media censorship / Phelim Kine
High hurdles to health in China / Joseph Amon
Worship beyond the gods of victory / Mickey Spiegel
A slow march to legal reform / Jerome Cohen
Building the new Beijing: so much work, so little time / Mei Fong
China's Olympic dream, no workers' paradise / Han Dongfang and Geoffrey Crothall
The race for profits / Arvind Ganesan
China and the Spielberg effect / R. Scott Greathead
A marathon challenge to improve China's image / John Kamm
Clearing the air / Christine Loh
Modern games, old Chinese Communist Party / Bao Tong
Democracy with Chinese characteristics / Martin Lee
Authoritarianism in the light of the Olympic flame / Liu Xiaobo
Dragons win: the Beijing games and Chinese nationalism / Emily Parker
Challenges for a responsible power / Sophie Richardson
A dual approach to rights reform / Kenneth Roth