Softpower, soccer, supremacy : the Chinese dream
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Softpower, soccer, supremacy : the Chinese dream
(Sport in East and Southeast Asian Societies / J.A. Mangan, series editor, v. 1)
Peter Lang, c2020
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Xi Jinping's "Soccer Revolution" is unique: the most extensive politicization and geo-politicization of the Global Game. His purpose is to extend the global softpower projection of "the Middle Kingdom": an ancient Western imperial mantra ("bread and circuses") has been replaced by a modern Eastern "imperial" mantra ("rice and pitches"). The Asian Football Federation shares this "allopathic" vision of East Asian soccer: the future is Asia and it starts in China! Soccer is a talisman for a New Asia in a New Era. For China soccer is a hubristic instrument of softpower projection. Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy: The Chinese Dream makes this point forcefully. In East Asia soccer in now "much more than a game"!
Table of Contents
List of Tables - Acknowledgements - J.A. Mangan: Prologue: Xi's Chinese Dream: "Rice and Pitches" (' ')-Imperial Strategies - Li Jinning/Keiko Ikeda: China, Politics and Soccer: The Era of the Cultural Revolution-The Immediate and Eventual Consequences for "The Chinese Dream" - Jiahao Hu: Chinese Sports Diplomacy: Intentions, Innovations, and Impediments-The Background to the BRI and BRICS Initiatives - Tobias Zuser: Building a Successful Superhighway: Soccer Revolution and the Realization of the Chinese Dream-An Overview - Emma Lupano: Dreams: The Pursuit of Consensus and the Display of National Power-Chinese Soccer Softpower Narratives - Leah (Xiufang) Li: Positive Projection: Soccer and Xi's Softpower Strategy-Branding, Intention, Ambition, and Assertion - Tobias Zuser/Lawrence Ka-ki Ho: "The Chinese Dream": Neglected Dimension-Who Is Chinese?Multi-Ethnic Soccer Representation - Tzu-hsuan Chen/Alan Bairner: Crossing the Penalty Area? The Dynamics of Chinese/Taiwanese Football - John Connell: Dreams, Desires, and Destiny: Football and Fantasies in China - PART 2: Korean Perspectives - Jong-sung Lee: Failed Diplomatic Tool: Soccer-An Evolving Soft Power Relationship between China and Korea - Kyoungho Park/Gwang Ok: From Chinese Neurosis to South Korean Nightmare: Soccer as a Shifting Barometer of National Self-Confidence - Udo Merkel: Sport as a Nation Branding Tool in Divided Korea: Soccer, Status, and Softpower - PART 3: Japanese Perspectives - Christian Tagsold/Sato Ryohei: Japan and China: Overview-Leagues and Clubs - Christian Tagsold: Meeting Xi's Ambitions with a Critical Eye: Japan's Reaction to China's Football Dreams-A "Further Caveat" - Colm Hickey: "The Guiding Light for the sport in Japan!"-Middlesex Wanderers and the Development of Football in Japan, 1967-2017: Regional Domination? An Anglo-Saxon Heritage of Supremacy to be Respected and Retained? - PART 4: Australian Perspectives - David Rowe/Keith Parry/Bonnie Pang: The China Question and Soccer in Australia - Peter Horton: Blinded by the Light! Hard Ball Disguised as Soccer: Interpreting China's Football Dream-An Australian's Reflection - Steve Georgakis/Andy Harper: Will Xi Jinping's China Soccer Dream Become Australia's Football Nightmare? - J.A. Mangan: Epilogue - Contributors - Index.
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