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Olympic Short Films. Seventh Night Festival. Display statistics. Volunteering for the Beijing Olympic Games: visions, policies and capitals. Authors Zhuang, Juan. Issue Date Metadata Show full item record. Abstract This research examines the use of volunteering at the Beijing Olympic Games for the creation of human, social and political capital at individual, organisational and societal levels.

Despite a long tradition of Olympic volunteering, this has not been investigated so far. The concept of volunteerism at Beijing , in fact, was constructed upon multiple contexts including the Olympic Movement, Chinese society and an international understanding of the ternl BOCOG, Hence, volunteerism as an under-investigated concept is firstly studied individually in each of these contexts.

The frameworks underpinning this research include Getz's human resource planning process which explains how specific policies for managing event volunteers are formulated for fulfilling its vision s ; and theories of social, human and political capital as developed by Putnam , Bourdieu ; and Coleman respectively. Multiple qualitative case study strategy is adopted for this investigation, following a constructivist paradigm.

The subjective and interactive epistemology is constructed upon the knowledge and experiences of a total of fifty-seven infoIDlants, most of whom were directly involved in the Beijing Olympic Volunteer Programme.

The research findings illustrate that the Chinese state and BOCOG's interpretation of the concept of volunteerisrn was manifested in organisational visions for the Beijing Olympic Volunteer Programme. These visions were accomplished through a range of management policies, which in fact placed volunteerism at Beijing in line with the maturity stage of volunteerism in the Olympic Movement.

There appears to be none of that reluctance in China -- reflecting a confidence in the country's Covid prevention measures, which are broadly popular among the public. Unlike the vaccination delay before the Tokyo Olympics, China rolled out its inoculation program with remarkable speed and efficiency.

So far more than 2. To ensure the Olympics don't cause an outbreak among the population, Chinese organizers will hold the Games in what's been billed as a "Covid-safe bubble" around Beijing, intended to separate athletes and participants from local residents.

Only people who live in mainland China will be allowed to attend the Games as spectators. But the Beijing Games haven't avoided controversy. Human rights activists have called for the United States and other democracies to boycott the event, citing Beijing's alleged human rights abuses in Tibet, Xinjiang and Hong Kong. The Chinese government has repeatedly denied these claims.

International journalists have also criticized organizers for lack of transparency and access. On Tuesday, the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China said on Twitter that foreign journalists had been excluded from events, blocked from news conferences and prevented from reporting on the preparations. But the controversy abroad has not dampened enthusiasm at home. Even a grueling selection and training process hasn't deterred the army of young volunteers.

One selected volunteer, student Li Wanghua, told state-run China Daily she had to complete more than 20 training sessions online before taking a series of exams. The applicants were tested on their knowledge of winter sports and the Games, as well as their English skills, before undergoing interviews.