Celebrating sports with China Gold

At Berkshire, we can’t stay away from sports for long. Introducing students and the public to China through the stories of the 2008 Olympics was an irresistible opportunity. The result is China Gold: China’s Quest for Global Power and Olympic Glory, a full-color paperback designed for gifts as well as classroom use. The book has a distinct environmental theme, too. I wrote in the foreword that “China Gold is an inevitable alchemy, in the sense of the word as . . .’a way of thinking about the relationship of humanity and nature that accentuates the importance of transformation in both.'” You can see every gleaming page free online and a flyer is available, too.

About the Author: Karen Christensen

Karen Christensen is an entrepreneur, environmentalist, and writer. She is the owner and CEO of Berkshire Publishing Group, a research associate of the Fairbank Center at Harvard, a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations, and founder of the Train Campaign. She was a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Press, Her Substack newsletter, The Way We Live Now, has over 12,000 subscribers: www.karenchristensen.substack.com.