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t the ceremony is ‘an upscale version of a North Korean group calisthenics performance’ and that ‘overly large with too many people involved and was devoid of content and human nature.’ (Taipei Times, Aug 2008) However, one cannot deny that the message of a harmonious society was delivered. The ceremony represented the future of China with the architectures, the high tech visuals, and the pyro-techniques that was built on an ancient traditional culture.

China used Lin Miaoke, the girl who mimed the song to represent the face of China, perfect and flawless. It’s the unfortunate reality that the ceremony turned into an authority game, as Jacques DeLisle states, One World Different Dreams. In analysing the ceremony, I realised that China only presented sports in the performance of Taiji which contradicts to the traditional Greek concept of the balance between ‘the body (sport), mind (education) and soul (culture)’ (Garcia, 2012:24) With a four hour ceremony, China mainly presented its history of invention and mass scale performances, and made weak links to sports. It makes me think differently about the purpose of the Olympics Opening Ceremony – does different principles apply to different countries? If yes, then the Olympics are not a fair game. In addition, I realised that, ‘While many of China’s past inventions were undoubtedly incredible in their time, the Chinese, as a rule, failed to go the distance.’ (Ong, 2005:169) The Chinese stopped inventing and innovating in the Qing dynasty, and perhaps, this is the reason why China was a less developed country before.

China failed the bid for the Summer Olympics 2000 mainly due to the failure of human rights standard and environmental issues, though these policies are improving, but during analysing the ceremony, there are two problems which I strongly feel that the Chinese government needs to pay serious and immediate attention to it.

I could not watch the Opening Ceremony online was a surprise. As a new and open country, freedom of press should exist. ‘China’s restrictions on media access are well known, and coverage of its continued restrictions contributes to a picture of China as a country that violates human rights.’ (Price & Dayan, 2008:354) According to Ashley Esarey, the Chinese Communist Party ‘exerts near complete control over the country’s 358 television stations and 2,119 newspapers – the primary media available to more than one billion Chinese citizens.’ (Esarey, Feb 2006:4) The Chinese government cannot limit freedom. The Chinese will not develop their thinking if certain information is eliminated.

When I was watching the parade of nations, the Chinese athletes caught my eyes. I wondered about the life of a Chinese athlete, and I found this. In 1980s, China’s sport system gradually evolved under the free market system. ‘Although the sport governance system has been reformed considerably in the last two decades, the governments at all levels still has extensive control of sport operations in China.’ (Li, Maclntosh, & Bravo, 2011:209) The Chinese athletes who competed in the Beijing Olympics were trained at ages five or six. The government takes ‘potential’ athl本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。