Sport and Nationalism in Asia

<p>Written by a team of international scholars, <i>Sport and Nationalism in Asia - Power, Politics, and Identity</i> is a collection of original research which addresses a number of issues central to notions of nationalism and identity in sport including: how the Olympics and other international and regional sports events have fostered an active interweaving of sport, politics and nationalism; the role of traditional sport in the building of national consciousness and national identity; the way modern sport creates and reflects nationalism, thereby giving it a voice and a focus. The book covers eight case studies on countries/regions across West Asia, Central Asia and East Asia. It is one of the few works that examines the relationships between sport, politics and nationalism from an Asian perspective.</p><p></p><p>This book was published as a special issue of the <em>International Journal of the History of Sport</em>.</p> <p>1. Introduction 2. Sustaining Identities: Hong Kong and the Politics of an Olympic Boycott 3. Syria and the Olympics: National Identity on an International Stage 4. The Establishment of the Qatar National Olympic Committee: Building the National Sport Identity 5. Projecting the ‘Chineseness’: Nationalism, Identity and Chinese Martial Arts Films 6. Sport and Nationalism in the Republic of Turkey 7. In the Shadow of National Glory: Taiwan Aboriginal Baseball in the Politics of Identity 8. Cultural Evolution and Ideology in Korean Soccer: Sport and Nationalism 9. The Politics of Sport and Identity in North Korea</p>