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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kate Merkel-Hess; Kenneth Pomeranz; Jeffrey N Wasserstrom |
| ISBN: | 9780742566590 0742566595 9780742566606 0742566609 |
| OCLC Number: | 265741793 |
| Description: | xii, 332 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Inroduction: China in 2008: reflection on a year of great significance / Kate Merkel-Hess -- Anxieties of a prosperous age -- Tibet -- Meanwhile, across the straits ... -- Nationalism and the torch -- Earthquake and recovery -- Shanghai images in Beijing's year -- Tiananmen reconsidered -- The road to the Olympics -- The Olympics as spectacle -- China after the games -- Follow the leader -- Things seen and unseen -- Pop culture in a global age -- Reinvented traditions -- China and the United States. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Kate Merkel-Hess, Kenneth L. Pomeranz, and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ; with Miri Kim ; foreword by Jonathan D. Spence. |
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