Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy

The Chinese Dream

396 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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the global softpower projection of "the Middle Kingdom": an ancient Western imperial mantra ("bread and circuses") has been replaced by a modern Eastern "imperial" mantra ("rice and pitches").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"!

• Reihe: Sport in East and Southeast Asian Societies
• Themen: Sport & Freizeit Ballsportarten / Ballspiele Football, Fußballvarianten und verwandte Spiele Fußball
• ISBN: 9781433168819
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.04.2020
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Band herausgegeben von: J.A. Mangan, Peter Horton, Christian Tagsold