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Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia
Victor Cha
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Description for Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia
Hardback. Series: Contemporary Asia in the World. Num Pages: 200 pages, 15 illus; 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JMC; JP; WSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seoul Games? Or was Beijing in 2008 more like Berlin in 1936, when Germany took advantage of the global spotlight to promote its political ideology at home and abroad? Beyond the Final Score takes an original look at the 2008 Beijing games within the context of the politics of sport ... Read more
The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seoul Games? Or was Beijing in 2008 more like Berlin in 1936, when Germany took advantage of the global spotlight to promote its political ideology at home and abroad? Beyond the Final Score takes an original look at the 2008 Beijing games within the context of the politics of sport ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Asia in the World
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231154901
SKU
V9780231154901
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About Victor Cha
Victor D. Cha is the D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and professor of government in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He won the 2000 Ohira Book prize for Alignment Despite Antagonism: The U.S.-Korea-Japan Security Triangle and is ... Read more
Reviews for Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia
[Cha] illuminates both the good and the bad roles sports can play in a society.
Song Woong-ki Korea Herald A profound study of the cultural and political dynamics of the Asia-Pacific region.
Jean Brisebois Taiwan Today
Song Woong-ki Korea Herald A profound study of the cultural and political dynamics of the Asia-Pacific region.
Jean Brisebois Taiwan Today