Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy: The Chinese Dream (Hardcover)

List of Tables ? Acknowledgements ? J.A. Mangan: Prologue: Xi’s Chinese Dream: "Rice and Pitches" (‘粮食?球?’)?Imperial Strategies ? Li Jinning/Keiko Ikeda: China, Politics and Soccer: The Era of the Cultural Revolution?The Immediate and Eventual Consequences for "The Chinese Dream" ? Jiahao Hu: Chinese Sports Diplomacy: Intentions, Innovations, and Impediments?The Background to the BRI and BRICS Initiatives ? Tobias Zuser: Building a Successful Superhighway: Soccer Revolution and the Realization of the Chinese Dream?An Overview ? Emma Lupano: Dreams: The Pursuit of Consensus and the Display of National Power?Chinese Soccer Softpower Narratives ? Leah (Xiufang) Li: Positive Projection: Soccer and Xi’s Softpower Strategy?Branding, Intention, Ambition, and Assertion ? Tobias Zuser/Lawrence Ka-ki Ho: "The Chinese Dream": Neglected Dimension?Who Is Chinese?Multi-Ethnic Soccer Representation ? Tzu-hsuan Chen/Alan Bairner: Crossing the Penalty Area? The Dynamics of Chinese/Taiwanese Football ? John Connell: Dreams, Desires, and Destiny: Football and Fantasies in China ? PART 2: Korean Perspectives ? Jong-sung Lee: Failed Diplomatic Tool: Soccer?An Evolving Soft Power Relationship between China and Korea ? Kyoungho Park/Gwang Ok: From Chinese Neurosis to South Korean Nightmare: Soccer as a Shifting Barometer of National Self-Confidence ? Udo Merkel: Sport as a Nation Branding Tool in Divided Korea: Soccer, Status, and Softpower ? PART 3: Japanese Perspectives ? Christian Tagsold/Sato Ryohei: Japan and China: Overview?Leagues and Clubs ? Christian Tagsold: Meeting Xi’s Ambitions with a Critical Eye: Japan’s Reaction to China’s Football Dreams?A "Further Caveat" ? Colm Hickey: "The Guiding Light for the sport in Japan!"?Middlesex Wanderers and the Development of Football in Japan, 1967?2017: Regional Domination? An Anglo-Saxon Heritage of Supremacy to be Respected and Retained? ? PART 4: Australian Perspectives ? David Rowe/Keith Parry/Bonnie Pang: The China Question and Soccer in Australia ? Peter Horton: Blinded by the Light! Hard Ball Disguised as Soccer: Interpreting China’s Football Dream?An Australian’s Reflection ? Steve Georgakis/Andy Harper: Will Xi Jinping’s China Soccer Dream Become Australia’s Football Nightmare? ? J.A. Mangan: Epilogue ? Contributors ? Index.