The Constitutive Effects of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games’ Documentation in Constructing the ‘New China’

This article argues that the documentation of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games helped the idea of the ‘New China’ to stabilize and emerge. It is through documents – and their associated documentary practices of producing, standardizing, deploying, circulating, inscribing, reading, writing and so on...

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review

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