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...China's superhuman efforts to put its best foot forward and put on a good show could, in the end, prove to be as harmful to the Olympic spirit as any sour-faced street protest. Xu Guoqi, author of Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008 and a history professor at Kalamazoo College in the U.S., says that Beijing's overzealous approach to security has limited the chances for spontaneous celebrations. Even Chinese citizens are forbidden to wear nationalistic T shirts into sporting events. "Beijing is being overcautious," says Xu. "I guess that's in order to host a safe...
...more than at many other sports schools. Three times a week, students hone their table-tennis skills also in the evening. Many kids see their parents for only a couple of weeks each year. "China's so good at Ping-Pong because we train harder than anyone else," says Xu Mengjie, a pigtailed 10-year-old standing under a giant banner that exhorts fight for your country. "I always feel like I need to work harder because that's the only way I can become an Olympic champion...
...don’t seem to agree with one another, that they don’t necessarily seem like part of some single vision. I try to have a sense of humor about what I do and in what I do.”—Denise J. Xu...
...Snow Angels” closes with shots of daily life, what is fictional and what is plausible blend seamlessly together, leaving the viewer just as invested in the events of that small town as its own inhabitants were. —Staff writer Denise J Xu can be reached at dxu@fas.harvard.edu
...Staff writer Denise J. Xu can be contacted at dxu@fas.harvard.edu...