New technologies, new narratives

Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 284-306

  Humphreys, Lee ^a   Finlay, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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