TY  - BOOK
AU  - J.A. Mangan
AU  - Peter Horton
AU  - Christian Tagsold
PY  - 2020
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2689-3479
SN  - 9781433173639
TI  - Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy
T2  - The Chinese Dream
DO  - 10.3726/b16103
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1058599
N2  - 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the global softpower projection of "the Middle Kingdom": an ancient Western imperial mantra ("bread and circuses") has been replaced by a modern Eastern "imperial" mantra ("rice and pitches").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"!
LA  - English
ER  -