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Sport and Nationalism in Asia: Power, Politics and Identity book cover

1st Edition

Sport and Nationalism in Asia Power, Politics and Identity

Edited By Fan Hong, Zhouxiang Lu Copyright 2015
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge
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Written by a team of international scholars, Sport and Nationalism in Asia - Power, Politics, and Identity is a collection of original research which addresses a number of issues central to notions of nationalism and identity in sport including: how the Olympics and other international and regional sports events have fostered an active interweaving of sport, politics and nationalism; the role... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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