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Opening a Storyline in the 2020 Olympics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

David Leheny
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The Opening Ceremony under the guidance of popular film director Yamazaki Takashi will almost certainly earn it applause overseas, particularly by viewers and writers eager to take stock of a country's creative talents in this once-every-four-years fantasia. As the stuff of international politics goes, it will be mostly inconsequential and harmless, and it will likely be good fun. But it also offers the chance to explore how a ceremony can reproduce moral and historical claims that remain largely unexamined, and how closed to challenge and contestation an Opening might be.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , February 2020 , e4
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