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JUN 21, 2008
Chinese athletes pushed to the limit, and beyond, for Olympic gold
Tehran Times
Pressured by the national athletic system and tempted by the commercial riches awaiting star performers in the 2008 Games, China's athletes are pushing themselves to their limits and beyond, causing some to risk their health in pursuit of nationalist glory.
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JUN 19, 2008
China makes “kung pao chicken” official for Olympics
Los Angeles Times
As it readies for an influx of visitors for the August Games, the Chinese capital has offered restaurants an official English translation of local dishes whose exotic names and alarming translations can leave foreign visitors frustrated and famished. "Bean curd made by a pock-marked woman," as the Beijing Youth Daily rendered the spicy Sichuanese dish, is now "Mapo tofu." And "chicken without sexual life" becomes mere "steamed pullet."
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JUN 18, 2008
Beijing Olympics 2008: China’s government clamps down on entertainment
The Daily Telegraph
China is clamping down on entertainment for the Olympics, closing bars and clubs and making it more difficult for companies to lay on their usual lavish hospitality parties for clients.
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JUN 16, 2008
China Olympic spin
NDTV.com
China's front foot PR where only the positives are obsessively publicized while the negatives are swept under the carpet. The Chinese government is using the Olympics to put on table everything positive they want the world to know through a heavy dose of information fed to the media in a manner that doesn't look like state control but pride of the Chinese people. But just like my friend says, 'the trick is to keep the wrap as thin as possible'. A trick the Chinese government has forgotten while serving propaganda.
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JUN 15, 2008
How the Chinese Communists destroyed ancient Beijing
The Sunday Times
Book review: To the Chinese of centuries past, Beijing was both the centre of the imperial state and an architectural expression of the spiritual order uniting man and heaven. A capital that survived the collapse of the empire, invasion by Japan and China’s civil war, has been conclusively doomed by the 2008 Olympic Games and by planners, speculators and foreign architects hungry for prestige.
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