On seizing the olympic platform

Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 86-114

  Price, Monroe E ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

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