Minky (Hrsg.) Worden

China's Great Leap

The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges

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With contributions from some of the most well respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China's Great Leap examines the People's Republic of China as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games. When Beijing first sought the Games, China was still recovering from the upheavals of Maoist rule and adapting to a market revolution. Today, China wants to engage with the outside world—while fully controlling the engagement. How will the new leaders in Beijing manage the Olympic process and the internal and external pressures for reform it creates? China's Great Leap will illuminate China's… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-58322-953-8
EAN: 9781583229538
Produktnummer: 15732910
Verlag: Seven Stories Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'026 KB

Über den Autor

As Human Rights Watch's Director of Global Initiatives, MINKY WORDEN develops and implements international outreach and advocacy campaigns. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 1998, Ms. Worden worked in Hong Kong and in Washington, D.C. at the Department of Justice. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, she is the editor of China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges and the co-editor of Torture: Does It Make Us Safer? Is It Ever OK?: A Human Rights Perspective. Worden lives in New York.