China in 2008 : A Year of Great Significance

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

China in 2008\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nTitle: China in 2008\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Asian history\nPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers\nPublication year: 2009\nISBN-13: 9780742566606\nISBN-10: 0742566609\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe Beijing Olympics ensured that the world would be watching China in 2008, and the year turned out to be the most tumultuous and traumatic for the Chinese since the massive Tiananmen uprising of 1989. Crippling winter storms, riots in Tibet, the devastating Sichuan earthquake, and many other dramatic eventsincluding the PRC edging out the United States to become the country with the most Internet usersgrabbed international headlines. This innovative book, based on postings from the China Beat (the noted group blog/electr.