Not everyone may know that the first “Chinese” athlete to win an Olympic medal was a Scotsman born in China. He was Eric Liddell, the son of Presbyterian missionaries, born in Tianjin in 1902. After his Olympic victory in 1924 in Paris …
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Any number of reasons can explain what is happening in Beijing, China, for the Olympics, but the bottom line is, they are having to bus in state-trained “cheer squads” to help fill up the seats of the Olympic Park. …
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Remember “Wag The Dog” where a war was staged on television and not in real life, fooling everyone. Well, the China Olympics’ Fake Fireworks scandal brought the World closer to that possibility and we should take action before it …
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Is Zhang Yimou China’s Leni Riefenstahl, or an artist who has turned mass spectacle ritual into a modern art form? Haiyan Lee delves into this question, and others, at The China Beat.
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