Football in Asia history, culture and business
This book is the first comprehensive study on history, culture, and business of football in Asia. Football has been a symbol of the modern invention, a catalyst of local, national and regional identities, all time favourite among kids and youths, and even a harbinger for cultural globalization and c...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2015]
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| Series: | Sport in the global society. Contemporary perspectives
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: football in Asia
- 2. The slow contagion of Scottish example: association football in nineteenthcentury colonial Singapore
- 3. From shamateurism to pioneer of Asia's professional football: the introduction of professional football in Hong Kong
- 4. The politics of Indonesian and Turkish soccer: a comparative analysis
- 5. 'Hamlet without the Prince': understanding Singapore-Malaysian relations through football
- 6. The otherness of self: football, fandom and fragmented (sub) nationalism in Bengal
- 7. 'Hope for the win and hope for the defeat': constructions of South Korean identity and the 2010 FIFAWorld Cup
- 8. South Asia and South-East Asia: new paths of African footballer migration
- 9. Twenty years of development of the J-League: analysing the business parameters of professional football in Japan
- 10. Latin America, football and the Japanese diaspora
- 11. 'A' is for Australia: New Football's billionaires, consumers and the 'Asian Century'. How the A-League defines the new Australia
- 12. Australia, Asia and the new football opportunity