| Author/Contributor(s): | Mangan, J a ; Horton, Peter ; Tagsold, Christian |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers |
| Date: | 04/09/2020 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
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the global softpower projection of the Middle Kingdom: an ancient Western imperial mantra (bread and circuses) has been replaced by a modern Eastern imperial mantra (rice and pitches).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!