China in 2008 A Year of Great Significance

Inroduction: China in 2008: reflection on a year of great significance / Kate Merkel-Hess -- Anxieties of a prosperous age -- Tibet -- Meanwhile, across the straits ... -- Nationalism and the torch -- Earthquake and recovery -- Shanghai images in Beijing's year -- Tiananmen reconsidered -- The road to the Olympics -- The Olympics as spectacle -- China after the games -- Follow the leader -- Things seen and unseen -- Pop culture in a global age -- Reinvented traditions -- China and the United States