Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy: The Chinese Dream, 1st Edition eBook

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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the global softpower projection of “the Middle Kingdom”: an ancient Western imperial mantra (“bread and circuses”) has been replaced by a modern Eastern “imperial” mantra (“rice and pitches”).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”!

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Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy: The Chinese Dream 1st Edition is written by J. A. Mangan; Peter Horton; Christian Tagsold and published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy are 9781433173639, 1433173638 and the print ISBNs are 9781433168819, 1433168812. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781433173646, 9781433173653.