U.S.-China Strategic Relations and Competitive Sports

David LaiPolitical Science
U.S.-China Strategic Relations and Competitive Sports

Author: David Lai

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030922009

Category: Political Science

Page: 378

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This book investigates cultural influences of competitive sports on U.S. and Chinese strategic thinking and tactical behavior. Most competitive sports owe their origins to human fighting. Although they are “ritualized contests,” competitive sports have retained many aspects of human warfare, especially the use of strategy and tactics that moves human contest beyond military clashes to the subjugation of opponents without bloodshed. Cultural influences usually go unnoticed. Indeed, Washington often conducts foreign affairs like football games without knowing that is the case. Likewise, Beijing moves in Weiqi style subconsciously. This book uncovers these influences.

Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2022, Volume 1

Kohei AraiTechnology & Engineering
Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2022, Volume 1

Author: Kohei Arai

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783031184611

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 948

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The seventh Future Technologies Conference 2022 was organized in a hybrid mode. It received a total of 511 submissions from learned scholars, academicians, engineers, scientists and students across many countries. The papers included the wide arena of studies like Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision, Ambient Intelligence and Security and their jaw- breaking application to the real world. After a double-blind peer review process 177 submissions have been selected to be included in these proceedings. One of the prominent contributions of this conference is the confluence of distinguished researchers who not only enthralled us by their priceless studies but also paved way for future area of research. The papers provide amicable solutions to many vexing problems across diverse fields. They also are a window to the future world which is completely governed by technology and its multiple applications. We hope that the readers find this volume interesting and inspiring and render their enthusiastic support towards it.

China-EU Relations

Hong ZhouPolitical Science
China-EU Relations

Author: Hong Zhou

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9789811011450

Category: Political Science

Page: 255

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This book provides a comprehensive review of relations between China and the EU from the perspectives of politics, economy and culture in order to provide a better understanding of the development of the China-EU Strategic Partnership over the past ten years and to explore its future direction. It goes on to discuss China-EU relations against the backdrop of global governance, as well as China’s relations with some of the EU member states. The final part of the report presents a comparative analysis of China-EU relations and EU-US relations. This book will help readers to better understand the status quo and to predict China-EU relations in the near future.

The Asian Games: Modern Metaphor for The Middle Kingdom Reborn

J.A. ManganSports & Recreation
The Asian Games: Modern Metaphor for The Middle Kingdom Reborn

Author: J.A. Mangan

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351546195

Category: Sports & Recreation

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The premise of The Asian Games: Modern Metaphor for The Middle Kingdom Reborn - Political Statement, Cultural Assertion, Social Symbol is emphatic. The Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games was a metaphor for hegemony and renaissance. China crushed the other Asian nations with the massive weight of its Gold Medal haul and demonstrated regional self-confidence regained. The huge accumulation of gold medals emphasized that once again China stood apart, and above, other nations of Asia. China's reaction and the reactions of the other Asian nations are explored in The Asian Games. There is another premise in the publication that the Chinese Asian Games were a harbinger of a wider dominance to come: geopolitically, politically, militarily, economically and culturally. And there is a further issue raised by the Guangzhou Asian Games- the continuing determination of the Asian nations to mount a distinctive Games that is Asian and resistant to the cumbersome gigantism of the Modern Olympic Games. Asia now has the wealth to promote, present and project a global sports mega-event with an Asian identity and in an Asian idiom. This Collection is unique in focus, argument and evidence.This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Handbook of Sports Studies

Jay CoakleySocial Science
Handbook of Sports Studies

Author: Jay Coakley

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 9781446265055

Category: Social Science

Page: 570

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Now available in paperback, this vital handbook marks the development of sports studies as a major new discipline within the social sciences. Edited by the leading sociologist of sport, Eric Dunning, and Jay Coakley, author of the best selling textbook on sport in the USA, it both reflects and richly endorses this new found status. Key aspects of the Handbook include: an inventory of the principal achievements in the field; a guide to the chief conflicts and difficulties in the theory and research process; a rallying point for researchers who are established or new to the field, which sets the agenda for future developments; a resource book for teachers who wish to establish new curricula and develop courses and programmes in the area of sports studies. With an international and inter-disciplinary team of contributors the Handbook of Sports Studies is comprehensive in scope, relevant in content and far-reaching in its discussion of future prospect.

Proceedings of IAC in Vienna 2020

Group of AuthorsBusiness & Economics
Proceedings of IAC in Vienna 2020

Author: Group of Authors

Publisher: Czech Institute of Academic Education

ISBN: 9788088203209

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 219

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International Academic Conference on Global Education, Teaching and Learning International Academic Conference on Management, Economics, Business and Marketing International Academic Conference on Transport, Logistics, Tourism and Sport Science

Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures

H. ThorpeSocial Science
Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures

Author: H. Thorpe

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9780230390744

Category: Social Science

Page: 332

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This book contributes to recent debates in transnationalism, mobilities and migration studies by offering the first in-depth sociological examination of the global phenomenon of action sports and the transnational networks and connections being established within and across local contexts around the world.

Post-Beijing 2008: Geopolitics, Sport and the Pacific Rim

J. A. ManganPolitical Science
Post-Beijing 2008: Geopolitics, Sport and the Pacific Rim

Author: J. A. Mangan

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317966074

Category: Political Science

Page: 399

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In 2008, as few in the world are unaware, China was host to the world via the Beijing Olympics. The world watched the metamorphosis of Beijing from insecure capital to confident metropolis but, aware of it or not, the world was also watching the symbolic assertion, via the Games, of a rising superpower. The Pacific Rim will be the stage on which China initially displays its new hegemonic intentions, aspirations and ambitions. Thus in Post-Beijing 2008, the political, economic and cultural impact of Beijing 2008 on the geopolitical future of the Pacific Rim will be discussed. This perspective, analysed by some of the most distinguished academic commentators from some of the world's leading universities who are closely associated with the Pacific Rim (East and West), is original in focus and the analysis is pregnant with political possibilities. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Global Sports and Contemporary China

Oliver RickSports & Recreation
Global Sports and Contemporary China

Author: Oliver Rick

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783031185953

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 229

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This book examines the formation of a globally oriented sports system in China, from the beginning of the reform process in 1978 to the present, focusing on the period after the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. It analyses how this system has shaped domestic social class identities and its role in international Chinese state politics. Despite advances in the marketization of the sports industry through previous eras, the Chinese state expanded investment in a set of global sports following the heavily government-directed drive towards national success at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games. This would be a time when the government focused on policies set to service a growing domestic middle-class and an increasingly wide-ranging set of international interests, with sporting investments being at the heart of their strategic plan. However, reform has proven difficult. The book presents a well-rounded account of this effort with tennis and soccer providing important case studies of the internal and external dynamics of this time. As such, the book will be of interest to researchers and students of globalization of sport, those studying East Asian sports development, and those who are interested in understanding China more broadly.

Beyond the Final Score

Victor D. ChaOlympic Games
Beyond the Final Score

Author: Victor D. Cha

Publisher: Columbia University Press

ISBN: 0231154909

Category: Olympic Games

Page: 212

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The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seoul Games? Or was Beijing in 2008 more like Berlin in 1936, when Germany took advantage of the global spotlight to promote its political ideology at home and abroad?Beyond the Final Score takes an original look at the 2008 Beijing games within the context of the politics of sport in Asia. Asian athletics are bound up with notions of national identity and nationalism, refracting political intent and the processes of globalization. For China, the Beijing Games introduced a liberalizing ethos that its authoritative regime could ignore only at its peril. Victor D. Cha-former director of Asian affairs for the White House-evaluates Beijing's contention with this pressure, considering the intense scrutiny China already faced on issues of counterproliferation, global warming, and free trade.