Reimagining the past at the Beijing Olympics

This thesis examines the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony, which was an unprecedented effort by the Chinese Party-state to reinvent Chinese national culture for consumption at home and abroad. Director Zhang Yimou delivered a spectacular event – three-thousand chanting Confucian scholars, t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poor, Galen
Other Authors: Chan, Shelly
Format: Others
Language:English
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Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3911