| Title | : | Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | J.A. Mangan, Peter Horton & Christian Tagsold |
| Release | : | 2020-04-20 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Soccer, Books, Sports & Outdoors, Nonfiction, Social Science |
| Size | : | 7112290 |
| 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the global softpower projection of "the Middle Kingdom": an ancient Western imperial mantra ("bread and circuses") has been replaced by a modern Eastern "imperial" mantra ("rice and pitches").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"! |
