Chinas Great Leap The Beijing Games And Olympian Human Rights Challenges Seven Stories Press 1st Ed Deepa Fernandes by Deepa Fernandes, Minky Worden 9781583229538, 1583229531 instant download after payment.

With contributions from some of the most well respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China’s Great Leap examines the People’s Republic of China as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games. When Beijing first sought the Games, China was still recovering from the upheavals of Maoist rule and adapting to a market revolution. Today, China wants to engage with the outside world—while fully controlling the engagement. How will the new leaders in Beijing manage the Olympic process and the internal and external pressures for reform it creates? China’s Great Leap will illuminate China’s recent history and outline how domestic and international pressures in the context of the Olympics could achieve human rights change. Learn about key areas for human rights reform and how the Olympics could represent a possible great leap forward for the people of China and for the world.

A Lever for Change in China; 

PART I RECENT CHINESE HISTORY AND THE OLYMPIC CONTEXT ; 

Overview: China's Racefor Reform; 

From Mao to Now: Three Tum ultuous Decades; 

The Promise of a "People's Olympics"; 

The Ghosts of Olympics Past ; 

Olympian Changes: Seoul and Beijing ; 

PART II HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES EXPOSED IN THE OLYMPIC FLAME ; 

Five Olympic Rings, Thousands of Handcuffs; 

Physical Strength, Moral Poverty ; 

A Gold Medal in Media Censorship ; 

High Hurdles to Health in China ; 

Worship Beyond the Gods of Victory ; 

A Slow March to Legal Reform.