Modernizing China in the Olympic Spotlight: China's National Identity and the 2008 Beijing Olympiad

Xin, Xu

doi:10.1111/j.1467-954x.2006.00655.x

Cited by 95 publications

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“…The political significance of sport and staging mega-sports events for nation-states has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years (Maguire, 1993(Maguire, , 1999Brownell, 1995;Roche, 2000;Xu, 2006). Manzenreiter claims that research on the political economy of hosting sport events has to a large extent focussed on case studies from the USA, where the myth of sports as an 'urban growth machine' has been most prevalent (eg Matheson andBaade, 2004b, c, 2005).…”

Section: Analysing Mega-sporting Eventsmentioning

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Mega-Sporting Events in Asia — Impacts on Society, Business and Management: An Introduction

Dolles¹,

Söderman

2008

Asian Bus Manage

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Mega-Sporting Events in Asia — Impacts on Society, Business and Management: An Introduction

Dolles¹,

Söderman

2008

Asian Bus Manage

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“…All in all, the source of funding for the projects and their ownership do not speak to urban entrepreneurialism, but instead draws attention to state-owned enterprise. The funding speaks to the intent of the CCP to gain prestige (Xu 2006). …”

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Whose Accolades? An Alternative Perspective on Motivations for Hosting the Olympics

Tomlinson

2010

Urban Forum

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This article argues that much of the literature on Olympic cities misperceives the role played by a city's business and political elites due to the failure to take into account the historical and socioeconomic circumstances of the country concerned. The article demonstrates that the Chinese Communist Party used the Olympics as a vehicle to consolidate its legitimacy and Beijing as a showpiece to project the country's identity and modernity internationally. The emphasis here is the interests of the Party and not urban entrepreneurialism. The essential contribution of this article is to propose a matrix as a tool for exploring the motivations of cities and countries for hosting the Olympics. The matrix comprises Olympic cities in democratic and authoritarian, and in developed and developing, countries.

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“…Barcelona hosted the 1992 Games in part to distinguish Spain as a post-Franco democracy. And the Chinese government used the hosting of the 2008 Games in Beijing as a way to solidify its role in the new world order (Xu, 2006;Schell, 2007). The shift from pariah to participatory member can take place by hosting or competing in the Olympic Games.…”

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Globalization, cities and the Summer Olympics

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2008

City

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This study examines the relationship between the increasing globalization of the Summer Olympics and the effect on host cities. The impact of the Games on city structure, the competition to host the Games, the selling of the Games to urban communities and the opportunities, the dangers of the city as a focus of global media attention and the role of the Games in the global city imaginary are critically discussed.

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Modernizing China in the Olympic Spotlight: China's National Identity and the 2008 Beijing Olympiad

Cited by 95 publications

References 11 publications

Mega-Sporting Events in Asia — Impacts on Society, Business and Management: An Introduction

Mega-Sporting Events in Asia — Impacts on Society, Business and Management: An Introduction

Whose Accolades? An Alternative Perspective on Motivations for Hosting the Olympics

Globalization, cities and the Summer Olympics

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