China Gets Camera Ready

The Olympic Games are underway in Beijing but only after a lot of primping and pruning. They practiced queuing, curbed public spitting, and shut down factories. They’ve even gone so far as to enlist Dr. David Tool, an American teaching at the Beijing International Studies University, to re-translate Beijing ’s mangled English signage. He joins us to explain. Plus, Director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University and author of Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia Dr. Victor Cha, explains what real changes we might see in China after the cameras are gone.