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SYMPOSIUM—THE OLYMPICS, MEDIA, AND SOCIETY. FOCUS: LONDON 2012

Celebrity Athletes, Soft Power and National Identity: Hong Kong Newspaper Coverage of the Olympic Champions of Beijing 2008 and London 2012

Qiaolei Jiang School of Humanities, Dalian University of Technology, ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 888-909 | Published online: 04 Dec 2013

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