Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy

Xi Jinping's "Soccer Revolution" is unique: the most extensive politicizationand geo-politicization of theGlobal Game.

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J.A. Mangan is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Royal Anthropological Society and Royal Society of Arts, with Fellowships (or their equivalents) at Berkeley, Cambridge, Oxford and elsewhere. He is the author or editor of many books including the internationally acclaimed Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School, The Games Ethic and Imperialism and 'Manufactured' Masculinity: Making Imperial, Morality and Militarism. He was Director of the International Research Centre for Sport, Socialisation and Society at Strathclyde University and has lectured worldwide. Peter Horton is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Catholic University and has taught in Britain, Australia, China and Singapore. His research interests include the socio-cultural analysis of historical and contemporary dimensions of sport, physical education and health. In recent years his research and writing have been centred upon the politics, cultures and societies of East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region. His recent significant publications include Manliness and Morality: The Mangan Oeuvre Global Reflections on J.A. Mangan s Studies of Masculinity, Imperialism and Militarism and Japanese Imperialism: Politics and Sport in East AsiäRejection, Resentment, Revanchism (edited with J.A. Mangan, Tianwei Ren and Gwang Ok). Christian Tagsold has a Heisenberg Position in the Department for Modern Japan, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He has published broadly on sports mega-events in Japan. Together with Andreas Niehaus he edited Sport, Memory and Nationhood in Japan: Remembering the Glory Days. His other research interests include the aging society in Japan and Japanese gardens in the West. His latest book Spaces in Translation: Japanese Gardens and the West was awarded the Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize in 2019 by the Vernacular Architecture Forum.

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Xi Jinping's "Soccer Revolution" is unique: the most extensive politicization and geo-politicization of the Global Game.

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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 RevolutionThe Immediate and Eventual Consequences for "The Chinese Dream" Jiahao Hu: Chinese Sports Diplomacy: Intentions, Innovations, and ImpedimentsThe Background to the BRI and BRICS Initiatives Tobias Zuser: Building a Successful Superhighway: Soccer Revolution and the Realization of the Chinese DreamAn Overview Emma Lupano: Dreams: The Pursuit of Consensus and the Display of National PowerChinese Soccer Softpower Narratives Leah (Xiufang) Li: Positive Projection: Soccer and Xi's Softpower StrategyBranding, Intention, Ambition, and Assertion Tobias Zuser/Lawrence Ka-ki Ho: "The Chinese Dream": Neglected DimensionWho 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: SoccerAn 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: OverviewLeagues and Clubs Christian Tagsold: Meeting Xi's Ambitions with a Critical Eye: Japan's Reaction to China's Football DreamsA "Further Caveat" Colm Hickey: "The Guiding Light for the sport in Japan!"Middlesex Wanderers and the Development of Football in Japan, 19672017: 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 DreamAn 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.