scholarly journals China’s Nation and Product Branding in New York’s Times Square in the Post-Beijing Olympics Era

JOMEC Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (15) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Hongmei Li
Keyword(s):  
Beijing Olympics ◽  
Times Square

Times Square Business Improvment District

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 353-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Tonnelat
Keyword(s):  
Times Square

De Disney à Las Vegas : le nouveau Times Square

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-119
Author(s):  
Christine Pouzoulet
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
Times Square

scholarly journals Emancipating the Image: The Beijing Olympics, Regeneration, and the Power of Performance

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Mei Barker
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Beijing Olympics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Susan Sontag ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Rapid Transformation

“In China, what makes an image true is that it is good for people to see it.” - Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1971 The Olympic Games gave the world an opportunity to read Beijing’s powerful image-text following thirty years of rapid transformation. David Harvey argues that this transformation has turned Beijing from “a closed backwater, to an open centre of capitalist dynamism.” However, in the creation of this image-text, another subtler and altogether very different image-text has been deliberately erased from the public gaze. This more concealed image-text offers a significant counter narrative on the city’s public image and criticises the simulacrum constructed for the 2008 Olympics, both implicitly and explicitly. It is the ‘everyday’ image-text of a disappearing city still in the process of being bulldozed to make way for the neoliberal world’s next megalopolis. It exists most prominently as a filmic image text; in film documentaries about a ‘real’ hidden Beijing just below the surface of the government sponsored ‘optical artefact.’ Film has thus become a key medium through which to understand and preserve a physical city on the verge of erasure.

scholarly journals Satellite-based estimates of reduced CO and CO2emissions due to traffic restrictions during the 2008 Beijing Olympics

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (14) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen M. Worden ◽  
Yafang Cheng ◽  
Gabriele Pfister ◽  
Gregory R. Carmichael ◽  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Beijing Olympics ◽  
2008 Beijing Olympics
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