Behind the Hyperreality Experience: The 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony

Some observers, such as Brooks (2008, August 12) in Harmony and the Dream, have considered collectivism as the key contribution to the aesthetics of the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Against such views, this paper takes the position that simulacra (Baudrillard, 1994, p. 125) of classical...

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Main Author: Ho, King Tong (Author)
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Published: New Zealand Asian Studies Society, 2011-12-01T05:17:49Z.
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