Inhalt: | Prologue: Xi's Chinese dream : 'rice and pitches' : 'imperial' strategies / J.A. Mangan -- China : football and political thought in the era of the Cultural Revolution and the eventual consequences for 'the Chinese dream' / Li Jinning and Keiko Ikeda -- China's sports diplomacy : intentions, innovations and impediments : the background to the BRI and BRICS initiatives / Jiahao Hu -- Building a successful superhighway : 'soccer revolution' : realization of the 'Chinese dream' : overview / Tobias Zuser -- Dreams : acquisition of consensus and display of national power : China's soccer strategies / Emma Lupano -- Positive projection : soccer and Xi's softpower strategy : branding, intention, ambition, assertion / Leah Xiufang Li -- 'The Chinese dream' : neglected dimension - who is Chinese? : international multi-ethnic soccer representation / Tobias Zuser and Lawrence Ka-ki Ho -- Crossing the penalty area? : the dynamics of Chinese/Taiwanese football / Tzu-hsuan Chen and Alan Bairner -- Dreams, desires and destiny : football and fantasies in China : caveat / John Connell -- Failed diplomatic tool : China and South Korea : an evolving softpower relationship between China and Korea / Jong-sung Lee -- From Chinese neurosis to South Korean nightmare : soccer as a shifting barometer of national self-confidence / Kyoungho Park and Gwang Ok -- Sport as a nation branding tool in divided Korea : soccer, status and softpower / Udo Merkel -- Japan and China : overview : leagues and clubs / Christian Tagsoldand Sato Ryohei -- Meeting Xi's ambitions with a critical eye : Japan's reaction to China's football dreams : a 'further caveat' / Christian Tagsold -- 'The guiding light for the sport in Japan!' : Middlesex wanderers and the development of football in Japan, 1967-2017 : is Japanese regional domination - an Anglo-Saxon heritage of supremacy ...to be retained? / Colm Hickey -- The China question and soccer in Australia / David Rowe, Keith Parry and Bonnie Pang -- Blinded by the light! : hard ball disguised as soccer : interpreting China's football dream : an Australian's reflection / Peter Horton -- Will Xi Jinping's China soccer dream become Australia's soccer nightmare? / Steve Georgakis and Andy Harper -- Epilogue: Soccer : a tilting global axis : from West to East : a sanguine if suspect rotation? / J.A. Mangan. "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 soft-power 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 its starts in China! Soccer is a talisman for a New Asia in a New Era. For China soccer is a hubristic instrument of soft-power projection. Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy: the Chinese Dream makes this point forcefully. In East Asia soccer in now 'much more than a game!'"-- |
