Whose games? The costs of being ''Olympic citizens'' in Beijing

Shin, Hyun Bang; Li, Bingqin

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Whose games? The costs of being ''Olympic citizens'' in Beijing

Date

2013

Authors

Shin, Hyun Bang

Li, Bingqin

Publisher

Sage Publications Inc

Abstract

Mega-events such as the Olympic Games tend to be accompanied by copious media coverage of the negative social impacts of these events, and people in the affected areas are often thought to share similar experiences. The research in this paper, which focus