The Asian Games: Modern Metaphor for ‘The Middle Kingdom’ Reborn : Political Statement, Cultural Assertion, Social Symbol (Hardcover)

Preface: A Regional and Global Symbolic Proclamation  Foreword: Holding Up More Than Half the Asian Sky  1. Introduction: Marketing ‘Brand China’: Maintaining the Momentum ? ‘The Middle Kingdom’ Resurgent and Resplendent  Part One: Chinese Motives: Realism, Rivalries and ‘Reassertion’  2. People’s Daily: An Evolutionary Narrative on Asia in Its Coverage of the Asian Games  3. The Pursuit of Regional Geopolitical Aspirations: China’s Bids for the Asian Games and the Asian Winter Games since the 1980s  4. Strict Compliance!: Chinese Careful Conformity and the Guangzhou Bid for the Asian Games  5. ‘Glittering Guangzhou’: The 2010 Asian Games ? Local Rivalries, National Motives, Geopolitical Gestures  6. Chinese Desires? Olympism and Dominance, Guangzhou and Missed Opportunity, Major Leagues and Isolation on the Pacific Rim  Part Two: Pacific Rim Reactions and Responses  7. Guangzhou 2010: Eastern Orwellian Echoes ? Yang Shu-chun and a Taiwanese Patriotic Media Offensive  8. From Honeymoon to Divorce: Fragmenting Relations between China and South Korea in Politics, Economics ? and Sport  9. Rivalries: China, Japan and South Korea ? Memory, Modernity, Politics, Geopolitics ? and Sport  10. Guangzhou 2010: Singapore at a Global Crossroads  11. Guangzhou: The Asian Games and the Chinese ‘Gold-Fest’ ? Geopolitical Issues for Australia  Part Three: The Pacific Rim and Beyond: Confrontation and Cooperation  12. The Asian Games and Diplomacy in Asia: Korea ? China ? Russia