"One world, different dreams" : The contest to define the Beijing olympics

Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 17-66

  DeLisle, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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