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Susan Brownell's Olympic Essays

Susan Brownell

Susan Brownell is professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.  In 2007-2008 she is a Fulbright Senior Researcher carrying out research on “The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: ‘One World, One Dream’?”  She is affiliated with the Olympic Studies Centre at the Beijing Sport University.

Brownell was a nationally-ranked athlete in the U.S. in the heptathlon, and represented the U.S. five times in international competitions.  While studying Chinese at Beijing University she won a gold medal in the heptathlon in the 1986 Chinese National College Games.  She is the author of Training the Body for China: Sport in the Moral Order of the People’s Republic (1995) and Beijing’s Games: What the Olympics Mean to China (2008). 

China, America, and the Olympics: Two Countries, One World

By Susan Brownell

Part I:  Coming-Out Parties:  The 1904 St. Louis Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Part II:  Olympic Volunteers in the U.S. and China

Part III: The “Combination of East and West” in the Beijing Olympic Games

Part IV:  An Evening of Crosstalk Entertainment