Beyond the Final Score The Politics of Sport in Asia

Name: Beyond the Final Score The Politics of Sport in Asia
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ISBN: 9780231154918

ISBN-10: 0231154917

ISBN-13: 9780231154918

Edition: 2011

Authors: Victor Cha

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The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive,and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China presentitself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japanduring the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seoul Games? Or wasBeijing in 2008 more like Berlin in 1936, when Germany took advantage of the globalspotlight to promote its political ideology at home and abroad?Beyond the Final Score takes an original look at the 2008Beijing games within the context of the politics of sport in Asia. Asian athleticsare bound up with notions of national identity and nationalism, refracting politicalintent and the…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2/11/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English