Post-Beijing 2008: Geopolitics, Sport and the Pacific Rim

Description

In 2008, as few in the world are unaware, China was host to the world via the Beijing Olympics. The world watched the metamorphosis of Beijing from insecure capital to confident metropolis but, aware of it or not, the world was also watching the symbolic assertion, via the Games, of a rising superpower.

The Pacific Rim will be the stage on which China initially displays its new hegemonic intentions, aspirations and ambitions. Thus in Post-Beijing 2008, the political, economic and cultural impact of Beijing 2008 on the geopolitical future of the Pacific Rim will be discussed. This perspective, analysed by some of the most distinguished academic commentators from some of the world's leading universities who are closely associated with the Pacific Rim (East and West), is original in focus and the analysis is pregnant with political possibilities.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the Hisotry of Sport.

Contents

1. Prologue: Assertive China: the Politics of Sports Dominance and the Pacific Rim J.A. Mangan China Post-Beijing 2008: Reflections from Inside and Outside 2. Politics and the Olympic Transaction: Measuring China's Accomplishments Victor Cha 3. New Priorities? Changing Chinese Government Sports Policy Post-Beijing 2008 Fan Hong 4. The Olympics in a 'New Great Game': Post-Beijing 2008 and China's Next Move Kevin Caffrey 5.Optimism and Pessimism: South Korean Median Reactions and Responses to Beijing 2008 J.A. Mangan Post-Beijing 2008: Eastern Pacific Perspectives 6. The Geo-political Balance of the Asia Pacific Region Post-Beijing 2008: An Australian Perspective Peter Horton 7. Reading American Readings of Beijing 2008 Mark Dyreson 8. Asia Pride, China Fear, Tokyo Anxiety: Japan Looks back at Beijing 2008, forward to London 2012 and Tokyo 2016 William Kelly 9. Post-Beijing 2008: The Need for Sport to foster Harmony as well as Competition in an increasingly Global Village Roberta J. Park 10. Too Far and Too Remote! European Indifferance to the Imapct of Beijing 2008 on the Pacific Rim Region Thierry Terret Post-Beijing 2008: Western Pacific Rim Responses 11. From Low Politics to High Politics: Pacific Rim Geopolitical Implications of Beijing 2008 Xu Xin 12. Bigger than Beijing 2008: Politics, Propaganda and 'Physical Culture' in Pyongyang Udo Merkel 13. Chinese Influence on the Pacific Rim: Post-Beijing 2008 and the Generation of Indonesian Self-Esteem Rusli Lutan 14. One World, Real World, Memory and Dream: Shadows of the Past and Images of the Future in Contemporary Asian Sport John Kelly 15. Epilogue: 'The Coming Out' Ceremony: China, Beijing 2008 and the Pacific Rim Fan Hong

Related Subjects

1. Foreign Policy
2. Chinese Studies
3. Asian Politics
4. Global Sport
5. Sport & International Relations
6. Sport Politics
7. Olympics
8. Asia Pacific Studies