World Seeks a Label to Define the Beijing Games

Smog, New Power, Architecture Cited As Key Story Lines

For many, these Olympics are a Rorschach test for how one feels about a big, complicated and hard-to-pigeonhole developing country holding a major international event. Human-rights groups have tried to dub the Games the "Genocide Games" for Beijing's support of Sudan and that African government's alleged crimes in Darfur. Others have called them the "Smog Games" for the city's dreadful air pollution. Still others predict this will be the Games when China ... Full Story »

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

This analysis is solid, but I didn't really get much out of it in the end. The China-Fatigue idea is worth exploring more from a pure media criticism perspective, but this is not done here. Also, the architectural angle isn't sufficiently expounded upon

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