The Beijing Olympics were about more than just sporting competition. They were about
China and its role on the international stage. The Games were explicitly recognized for their …

" A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the
Olympics tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of'media events' by analyzing the …

China and its media have been caught in the crosscurrents of nationalism and globalism in
the post-Tiananmen and post-Cold War milieux. Having lost its way politically in Tiananmen …

The unprecedented media coverage of the Beijing Olympics? China's global" coming out
party"? warrants consideration of who and what were on display. In stagingthe Games, the …

The observation that the Olympic Games are about much more than sport is a truism, yet one
well worth reviewing as we anticipate the display scheduled for Beijing in the summer of …

This article maps out how different actors are involved in the promotion and mediation of the
Olympics. It looks at the roles of, first, the nation-state, through an analysis of the promotional …

Utilising critical discourse analysis with corpus-assisted methods of analysis, this study
examines the representation of China by English-language newspapers in China versus …

This volume is the outcome of the Provincial China Workshop that took place in Hefei,
China, in 2009, which was held in collaboration with the Department of Media and …

In this volume Florian Schneider shows how mass media events fit into the political,
economic, and cultural developments in China. Through expert interviews and empirical …

Virtually every major media, information and telecommunications enterprise in the world is
significantly tied to China. This volume provides the most expert, up-to-date and …