China's great leap : the Beijing Games and Olympian human rights challenges
With contributions from some of the most well-respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China's Great Leap examines 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
1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations, map
9781583229538, 1583229531
759478306
Introduction: a lever for change in China
Pt I Recent Chinese history and the Olympic context 1. Overview: China's race for reform
2. From Mao to now: three tumultuous decades
3 The promise of a "people's Olympics"
4. The ghosts of Olympics past
5. Olympian changes: Seoul and Beijing
Pt II Human rights abuses exposed in the Olympic flame 6. Five Olympic rings, thousands of handcuffs
7. Physical strength, moral poverty
8. A gold medal in media censorship
9. High hurdles to health in China
10. Worship beyond the gods of victory
11. A slow march to legal reform
Pt III Polluted air, unclean business practices 12. Building the new Beijing: so much work, so little time
13. China's Olympic dream, no workers' paradise
14. The race for profits
15. China and the Spielberg effect
16. A marathon challenge to improve China's image
17. Clearing the air
Pt IV The political backdrop of the Beijing Games 18. Modern Games, old Chinese Communist Party
19. Democracy with Chinese characteristics
20. Authoritarianism in the light of the Olympic flame
21. Dragons win: the Beijing Games and Chinese nationalism
22. Challenges for a "responsible power"
23. A dual approach to rights reform