1st Edition

Football in Asia History, Culture and Business

Edited By Younghan Cho Copyright 2015
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

This book is the first comprehensive study on history, culture, and business of football in Asia. Football has been a symbol of the modern invention, a catalyst of local, national and regional identities, all time favourite among kids and youths, and even a harbinger for cultural globalization and consumerism in Asia. The economic growth and the current proliferation of football culture in Asia... Read more

1. Introduction: football in Asia  2. The slow contagion of Scottish example: association football in nineteenthcentury colonial Singapore  3. From shamateurism to pioneer of Asia’s professional football: the introduction of professional football in Hong Kong  4. The politics of Indonesian and Turkish soccer: a comparative analysis  5. ‘Hamlet without the Prince’: understanding Singapore–Malaysian relations through football  6. The otherness of self: football, fandom and fragmented (sub) nationalism in Bengal  7. ‘Hope for the win and hope for the defeat’: constructions of South Korean identity and the 2010 FIFAWorld Cup  8. South Asia and South-East Asia: new paths of African footballer migration  9. Twenty years of development of the J-League: analysing the business parameters of professional football in Japan  10. Latin America, football and the Japanese diaspora  11. ‘A’ is for Australia: New Football’s billionaires, consumers and the ‘Asian Century’. How the A-League defines the new Australia  12. Australia, Asia and the new football opportunity

Biography

Younghan Cho is Associate Professor of Korean Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea). He is co-editor of many special issues including Glocalization of Sports in Asia, Modern Sports in Asia: Cultural Perspectives, Colonial Modernity and Beyond , and American Pop Culture.