Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy : The Chinese Dream Hardback
Edited by J.A. Mangan, Peter Horton, Christian Tagsold
Part of the Sport in East and Southeast Asian Societies series
Hardback
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the global softpower projection of "the Middle Kingdom": an ancient Western imperial mantra ("bread and circuses") has been replaced by a modern Eastern "imperial" mantra ("rice and pitches").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"!
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:396 pages, 19 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date:09/04/2020
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- ISBN:9781433168819
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:396 pages, 19 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date:09/04/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781433168819
