TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tagsold,Christian
AU  - Tagsold, Christian
TI  - Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy: The Chinese Dream
SN  - 9781433168819
PY  - 2020///
PB  - Peter Lang
N2  - 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the global softpower projection of "the Middle Kingdom": an ancient Western imperial mantra ("bread and circuses") has been replaced by a modern Eastern "imperial" mantra ("rice and pitches").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"!
UR  - https://international.scholarvox.com/netsen/book/88885648
ER  -