Free Ebook Tells China's Olympic Story Going Back to 1908

Great Barrington, MA, July 31, 2015 (Newswire.com) - ​The International Olympic Committee has awarded the 2022 Winter Games to China, which hosted the 2008 Summer Games at a cost of nearly $50 billion.

Why would China want the Winter Games when no other country except Kazakhstan remained in the running?

The related Berkshire Encyclopedia of China was Library Journal's Best Reference 2010: "Take a publisher with a decade of experience in China, add a group of well-known Chinese and Western scholars, pay special attention to details (each of the 800 articles begins on its own page, all article titles are rendered in English, Chinese characters, and transliterations), add 1100 unique photographs, sprinkle in dozens of traditional Chinese proverbs, do it all on recycled, chlorine-free paper, throw in a year of free online access, and the end result is this sumptuous resource on all things China for the 21st century."

Brian Coutts, Library Journal Best Reference Editor

Chinese history explains why the Olympics matter to China, and Berkshire Publishing is delighted to share, for the first time an ebook derived from the gorgeously illustrated China Gold: China’s Quest for Global Power and Olympic Glory. The 20-page ebook provides an expert-written history of China’s participation, and non-participation, in the Olympic Games, starting in London in 1908. It includes a section by author Susan Brownell, who appeared recently on Charlie Rose to discuss the 2022 bid, that begins, “Why has hosting the Olympic Games been so important to China for the last hundred years?”

Chapters were written by many sports scholars and the book was edited by Chinese sports expert Fan Hong, of the University of Western Australia, Karen Christensen, CEO of Berkshire Publishing, and Duncan Mackay, a well-known Olympics journalist. Christensen describes herself a wannabe jock.

Visit our website to download the free ebook.