This cutting edge collection presents a political reading of the power of modern sport in Asia. Providing an interdisciplinary study of political and cultural tensions in Asia, past and present, through the key case-study of sport, it illuminates the complex practices and legacies of Japanese imperialism across East and Southeast Asia through the 20th century and beyond. Focusing on the deep background to contemporary dynamics of intraregional tensions, it examines sport both a...
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Empires: Dead, Dying and Dormant.- Empires – West and East; Curious Conjunction and Contemporary Consequences, Complexity and Circumstances.- Japanese...
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J.A. Mangan is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Royal Anthropological Society and Royal Society of Arts, with Fellowships at Berkeley, Cambridge and Oxford...