Japanese Imperialism: Politics and Sport in East Asia Rejection, Resentment, Revanchism / edited by J.A. Mangan, Peter Horton, Tianwei Ren, Gwang Ok.

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 imperi...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Mangan, J.A (Editor), Horton, Peter (Editor), Ren, Tianwei (Editor), Ok, Gwang (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • Empires: Dead, Dying and Dormant
  • Empires - West and East; Curious Conjunction and Contemporary Consequences, Complexity and Circumstances
  • Japanese Imperial Sport as Failed Cultural Conditioning: Korean ‘Recalcitrance’
  • The Unclosed Door: South Korea's Post-Colonial Sport as a Revanchist Reaction to Japanese Imperial Legacies
  • A Living Legacy (Part One): Japanese Imperialism and Chinese Revanchism – Modern Sport as a Modern Medium
  • A Living Legacy (Part Two): Japanese Imperialism - Residual Resentment and an Unforgiving China: the Sports Cartoon as Political Aide-Memoire
  • Japanese Cultural Imperialism in Taiwan: Judo as an Instrument of Colonial Conditioning
  • Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Control: Sport as a Component of Cultural Conditioning, Political Domination and Militaristic Imperialism
  • A Clash of Colonialisms: Sports Culture in Hong Kong under the Japanese Occupation
  • The Ambivalence of the Reaction, Response, Legacy and War Memory: The Japanese Occupation of the Malayan Peninsula: the Consequences for Sport of the Imperial Past and the Democratic Present
  • Towards the Construction of a New Regionalism? The End of East Asian Colonialism: Japanese Responses and Reactions to the Games of Asia
  • Tokyo 2020: Opportunity for Regional Reconciliation or Protracted Antagonism?
  • Retained Memories, Political Pressures, Catalytic Moments - Tokyo 2020 Reconciliation?
  • ‘The past is a present country’.