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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Olympics (Beijing)"”.
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Transforming space in the Old City of Beijing
… of globalization and the approaching 2008 Olympics, Beijing has undergone a rapid transformation that is dramatically eroding the old fabric. It has been argued that whether the capital city should be modernized or has its most historical characteristics preserved as much as possible, and …
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Politics and the Olympics: a comparison of the 1936 Berlin and 2008 Beijing games
Despite the fact that much research exists on the Olympics, limited publications address the relations between multiple Games. Furthermore, although the Olympics have been intertwined with politics from the founding of the modern movement, public perception of the 2008 Beijing Games was that of a …