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Olympics Journalists Say More About Their Home Country Than the Host

Posted on August 25, 2008 by Graham Webster

What have the Olympic Games done to affect the world’s discussions about China? Perhaps, very little. Instead of delving into the diversity and complexity of “China,” journalists focused on sports, especially the journalists’ home team. Cultural reporting, too, reflected the … Continue reading →

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Foreign Reporters and Scoripions at Beijing’s Wangfujing

Posted on August 17, 2008 by Graham Webster

Many people from outside China marvel at what Chinese eat—or, more accurately, what you can order at tourist locations. At Wangfujing’s Snack Street in Beijing, you can order a scorpion skewer. Jim Boyce, Beijing’s leading nightlife blogger, has been tracking … Continue reading →

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Online Voices Aren’t Everything in China

Posted on August 9, 2008 by Graham Webster

In the months leading up to the Beijing Olympics, which began Friday, English language media have published countless stories on China and its capital. But many of these stories echo each other and few break new ground in the world’s … Continue reading →

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Obama Says He Would Hear From Dalai Lama Before Going to Olympic Ceremony

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Graham Webster

Without saying definitively he would not attend the Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing one month from today, U.S. Senator Barack Obama said as president he would skip the ceremony without hearing from the Dalai Lama that there had been progress … Continue reading →

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Wasserstrom on the History of Chinese Boycotts

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Graham Webster

In The Nation, University of California, Irvine Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes on some recent and not-so-recent history of anti-foreign boycotts in China: Between the 1910s and 1930s, several foreign powers found themselves the target of Chinese student-led boycotts. In the … Continue reading →

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Staging for the Beijing Olympics—in Japan

Posted on December 5, 2007 by Graham Webster

Noted without comment. A large travel agency is planning a big promotion overseas to get foreign sports teams to stay in Japan before going on to Beijing for the start of next year’s Olympic games. They are touting the facilities, … Continue reading →

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Olympic Threats, Bush’s China Crutch, North Korea, and the Environment (U.S.–China Links)

Posted on October 7, 2007 by Graham Webster

Olympic threats: really dumb. China: Bush’s diplomatic savior? The North Korea deal: not what the White House hoped. And China meets the U.S. Congress to plan for a post-Bush climate reality. Recent China–U.S. relations news. Steve Clemons agrees with me … Continue reading →

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Olympic Threats Won’t Work and They’re Getting Old

Posted on October 6, 2007 by Graham Webster

The Olympics are a major international political event, and they’ve been part of activists’ rhetoric on Darfur and now Burma. But making threats about the Olympics is no way to make China cooperate. The phrase “Genocide Olympics” has been a … Continue reading →

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