Sport and Nationalism in Asia: Power, Politics and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780367738846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 122 str.

Fan Hong; Zhouxiang Lu

Opis

The book is an analysis of the relationship between sport and nationalism from an Asian perspective. It examines how the Olympics and other international and regional sports events have fostered an active interweaving of sport, politics and nationalism. It discusses the role of traditional sport in the building of national consciousness and nati

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Sustaining Identities: Hong Kong and the Politics of an Olympic Boycott  3. Syria and the Olympics: National Identity on an International Stage  4. The Establishment of the Qatar National Olympic Committee: Building the National Sport Identity  5. Projecting the ‘Chineseness’: Nationalism, Identity and Chinese Martial Arts Films  6. Sport and Nationalism in the Republic of Turkey  7. In the Shadow of National Glory: Taiwan Aboriginal Baseball in the Politics of Identity  8. Cultural Evolution and Ideology in Korean Soccer: Sport and Nationalism  9. The Politics of Sport and Identity in North Korea

O autorze

Fan Hong is Winthrop Professor at the Faculty of Arts, the University of Western Australia. Her main research interests are in the areas of Chinese culture, politics, gender, and sport.

Lu Zhouxiang is a Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His main research interests are modern Chinese history, nationalism and globalism.