China Showed the World that It’s Out of Sync
Tion Kwa, an editorial writer at The Straits Times in Singapore, is currently a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society in Washington. He writes in the Japan Times: What I found particularly...
View ArticleOrville Schell: China’s Post-Olympic Challenge
From the Business Standard: For the last two decades, Chinese leaders have been diligently trying to build a new edifice in order to gain some of that missing respect. This made a successful Olympic...
View ArticleChinese Media Dubs Youth ‘Bird’s Nest Generation’
The Olympics is apparently defining the new generation of youth in China. According to this report from AFP, a Chinese newspaper has created the term “Bird’s Nest Generation” to describe young people...
View ArticleA Look Back at Beijing 2008
Two days after the Olympics have closed and Der Spiegel is one of many already looking back on Beijing 2008: There were two worlds in Beijing, one on the inside of the stadium and the other sporting...
View ArticleWere China’s Glittering Games All Gold?
Minxin Pei of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace grades China on its hosting of the Olympics: By the time the Olympics ended, Beijing had clearly won the all-around gold. As a Chinese-born...
View ArticleDid the Games Improve Rights in China?
The BBC looks at whether the Olympics had the positive impact on the rights situation in China that many observers hoped for: The immediate impact was both positive and negative. On the plus side,...
View ArticleAnn Kent: China’s Thin Veil of Compliance
From The Canberra Times: Why the official paranoia, why the theatre, why the intense security which made life so difficult? The need for security against international terrorism, while legitimate to a...
View ArticleCao Jingxing: The Chinese People During The Olympics
Cao Jingxing wirtes in the Hong Kong-based Ming Pao Monthly, translated in the ESWN blog: Some people have called 2008 the “Year of the Volunteers” in China. This is not just about the Olympics, but...
View ArticleAn Olympic Evaluation
Eric Setzekorn is a graduate student at UC Irvine specializing in military history and is currently finishing an exchange semester with the Beijing University history department. He writes in the China...
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Were the Olympics Worth It?
“Posted on the Chinese MSN site, an article (that appears to have originated at ifeng.com) discusses whether the Beijing Olympics were worth their unprecedented budget, with opinions from economists...
View ArticleChinese Romance in the Air During Beijing Olympics
The Beijing Olympics allowed the Chinese people to present themselves as more romantic to the world, according to Xinhua News Agency: Zhang Yimou, the famed film director and the opening ceremony...
View Article‘Post-Olympic Era’ Off to a Rocky Start in China
Now that the glow of the Olympics is wearing off, journalists are taking another look at post-Olympics/Paralympics China and are not so optimistic. From AP: China received widespread praise for...
View ArticleWhat We Learned
Dr. Fei-Ling Wang published the following essay at the International Herald Tribune: The spectacular and successful 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have given the world a lot to think about. It may be still...
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A Crisis Rooted In Two Chinas
“Milk scare stems from problematic ‘normal’ China, while the ‘abnormal’ China is a show-time success,” Bill Schiller writes in theStar.com: Christopher Hughes, a professor of international relations at...
View ArticleChina Relishes Olympics Legacy
On the one year anniversary of the opening of the Olympics in Beijing, journalists are reflecting on the legacy of the Games for Beijing and for China. From the Christian Science Monitor: One year...
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