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China's Quest for Sporting Mega-Events
This book vividly elucidates the inseparable nature between politics and sport in China. The holding of sporting mega-events is viewed by the Chinese authorities as a prominent way to push forward the Reform and Opening up, arouse the patriotism among the public, and display national resurgence in the world. Chinese cities thus have keenly quested for the Olympics, the Asian Games and the World University Games since the 1980s. Theoretically, the President, the Premier and the central government should provide all-out support, so boosting the Chinese cities’ odds of success. The reality yet shows that their attitude towards the bids vary from case to case. Through reviewing the 20 bidding ...
China, Taiwan, and International Sporting Events
Chu explores the politics behind Taiwanese cities’ pursuit of international sporting events, and the Chinese authorities’ strategic measures in handling the relations with Taiwan since the 1990s. It is assumed that the Chinese authorities constantly oppose Taiwanese cities’ application for, and boycott their subsequent holding of, international sporting events. Doing so would obstruct Taiwan’s capacity to raise its visibility and influence in world society, and defend the One-China principle. In fact, the role of China in Taiwan’s pursuit of international sporting events is not invariably as a fatal obstructer, but sometimes a neutral bystander or even an enthusiastic supporter. Chu examines the reasons behind this phenomenon. Reviewing the 18 Taiwanese bidding attempts and four hosting projects, he argues that China’s inconsistent response is determined by the ups and downs of Cross-Strait political ties. As a result, this book provides insight into the nexus between sports and politics in the context of China-Taiwan rivalry. A must read for scholars, students, and other watchers of Cross-Strait relations.
Politics of Mega-Events in China's Hong Kong and Macao
This book explores the connection between politics and mega-events in post-handover Hong Kong and Macao. It also offers an in-depth account of the two cities’ keenness to integrate with China and engage in the international society and China’s eagerness to build image, boost influence and gain respect on the global arena. This work will facilitate academics, think tanks, diplomats and government officials to further understand the politics and international relations of China, Hong Kong and Macao.
Sporting Events in China as Economic Development, National Image, and Political Ambition
This book analyzes the motivations of the Chinese authorities to pursue the international sporting events. It investigates the 21 oft-underappreciated sporting events governed by FIFA, FINA, FIBA, IAAF, and other international organizations, and linking them with the calculus of the Chinese authorities to push forwards economic development, polish national image, and realize the supreme leaders’ political ambitions. The author therefore sheds important light on the intertwined nature of sport and politics in the Chinese state and reveals how pervasive the sporting events’ roles have been in China’s domestic politics and international relations. This book’s broad scope is expected to attract the subscriptions of the academics, think tanks, diplomats, government officials, and international sporting organizations.
Greater China's Olympic Medal Haul
Between 1984 and 2021, elite athletes from the member regions of Greater China – China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong – competed at each of the ten Summer Olympics. By winning 263 gold medals, 199 silver, and 173 bronze, China became a global sports superpower. Taiwan and Hong Kong pocketed 7 gold medals, 10 silver, and 17 bronze and 2 gold medals, 3 silver, and 4 bronze, respectively, displaying their world-leading statuses in archery, badminton, baseball, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, Judo, karate, sailing, Taekwondo, table tennis, and weightlifting. In response, the leaders of the three regions delivered high-profile praise. Their administrations awarded cash, badges, and/or honorary titles t...
The Sports Development of Hong Kong and Macau
"Chinas sports history and its contemporary role in the global sporting community have become well-known, but the sporting history and development of Chinas two Special Administrative Regions Hong Kong and Macau have not received the coverage they deserve either in their historical contexts or since the handovers of control to the People's Republic. By drawing on a multi-national group of scholars and practitioners, this volume makes a unique contribution to the understanding of sports development in greater China. The essays in this anthology examine the evolution of key sports, the hosting of sporting mega-events, the nexus of sports and politics, identity issues, and the role of sporting diplomacy. The chapters provide not only an analysis of colonial legacies but also in-depth accounts of the challenges to and outcomes of sports development in Hong Kong after 1997 and Macau after 1999. The chapters in this book were originally published in various special issues of The International Journal of the History of Sport."--Provided by publisher.
East Asia, Geopolitics and the 2012 London Games
Political confrontation is commonplace between nations. Sport is not infrequently a medium for this confrontation. This book concentrates on the East Asian Olympic nations and their use of the London 2012 Olympics to sustain and perpetuate both internally and externally regional and national political concerns with roots in history at a time of momentous, even threatening, East Asian change. The political preoccupations expressed involving China, Japan and Korea (North and South) reveal a relative indifference to London as a medium of western projection or Olympism as a medium of global harmony but rather an eastern focus on competing national and regional problems exposed by events at London 2012. This book is a political prism with sport as a refractile catalyst: possibly even a prescient prospectus of East Asian pasts into futures! This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
The Premier and China's Pursuit of the Olympics
Since the People's Republic of China re-joined the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1979, Beijing, Harbin, and Nanjing have obtained the central government's approval to bid for the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics, the Summer Youth Olympics, and the Winter Youth Olympics six times. Interestingly, Premiers Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, and Li Keqiang delivered words of support after Beijing's applications to host the 2000 Summer Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics, and the 2022 Winter Olympics were initiated, whereas Premiers Zhu Rongji and Wen Jiabao remained silent after Harbin and Nanjing's applications to host the 2010 Winter Olympics, the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics, and the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics were launched. Through reviewing key-players' memoirs, official yearbooks, media reports, and scholarly works, this paper aims to explain the reasons behind the above inconsistency. Its findings conclude that domestic and international political factors consistently determined enthusiasm or indifference of the head of government towards these Chinese cities' quest to host the IOC-governed sporting mega-events.
The Asian Games: Modern Metaphor for 'the Middle Kingdom' Reborn
The Guangzhou Asian Games was a metaphor for the regional rise of China. It crushed the other nations beneath a mass of medals. China once again stood apart from the other Asian nations: the Games was a harbinger of future wider hegemonic dominance. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Leveraging Mega-events to Embrace Chinese National Identity
The Chinese authorities successively assigned Hong Kong to host the 2008 Summer Olympics equestrian competitions and invited its professionals to take part in the organisation of the 2010 World Expo. This chapter, through reviewing the two cases, confirms the success of this strategic measure. It also investigates the reasons for the decline of the Hong Kong public's allegiance to Beijing and the rise of the local youngsters' unwillingness to identify themselves as Chinese after the celebrations of the two mega-events were over.
