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Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy: The Chinese Dream

Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy: The Chinese Dream

Hardcover

Series: Sport in East and Southeast Asian Societies, Book 1

Sports GeneralSoccer

ISBN10: 1433168812
ISBN13: 9781433168819
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Apr 9 2020
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

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the global softpower projection of the Middle Kingdom an ancient Western imperial mantra (bread and circuses) has been replaced by a modern Eastern imperial mantra (rice and pitches).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