Definition, equivocation, accumulation, and anticipation: American media's ideological reading of China's Olympic games

Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 346-371

  Foss, Sonja K ^a   Walkosz, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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