Notes
1. See especially Xu Guoqi, China and the Great War: China's pursuit of a new national identity and internationalization (Cambridge and New York, 2005).
2. For instance James A. Mangan and Dong Jinxia, eds, Preparing for glory: Beijing 2008. Chinese challenge in ‘the Chinese century’ (special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport 25 (7) (June 2008)); Gabriel Bernasconi, La longue marche olympique chinoise. Mao 1949–JO 2008: six décennies de diplomatie olympique (Biarritz, 2008).