Ebook: China's Great Leap: the Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges

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.