Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy
The Chinese Dream
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Edited By J.A. Mangan, Peter Horton and Christian Tagsold
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the global softpower projection of "the Middle Kingdom": an ancient Western imperial mantra ("bread and circuses") has been replaced by a modern Eastern "imperial" mantra ("rice and pitches").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"!
Index
Extract
13th Five-year Plan 76, 105
20th Party Congress 365
3+1 rule 350
50-point plan 72, 75, 77, 79, 162, 300, 328
A Football Fan’s Diary 4
Abdugheni, Abduhamit 120
Abe, Shinzō 243, 257
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