Chinese Desires? Olympism and Dominance, Guangzhou and Missed Opportunity, Major Leagues and Isolation on the Pacific Rim
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12220290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John D Kelly (0000-0002-7616-0321, ,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1087-1098 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of the History of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-3367 • E-ISSN: 1743-9035 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09523367.2013.782855 |
| OpenAlex | W1990650490 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
Understanding the situation of China's self-promotion via Olympism requires us to connect two patterns. China is successful at Guangzhou and in Beijing Games at sponsoring and competing in Olympic-style sports festivals, but also surrounded by highly popular professional team sport leagues in baseball, rugby and cricket from Japan to India. China is successful in the promotion of its new capitalist economy but is critically short of energy sources and its aggressive diplomacy in pursuit of energy by land and sea has led to confrontations from Japan to Burma and even to the US ‘pivot’ to Asia. Review of theories of situation demonstrates that while a Debord-style spectacle theory might seem to explain the sporting spectacles and a realism in the tradition of Clausewitz might seem suited to the military situation, in fact approaches to situation combining realist and constructivist elements are stronger; a Deleuzian emphasis on will to power needs to be supplemented by Weberian attention to ends and ideas. Neither pattern explains the other; they connect. China makes history and its internal debates over state and middle class values can be tracked observing promotion of professional team sport in urban China and the scale of state sponsorship of Olympic-style games
Aesthetics · Art · Beijing · China · Diplomacy · Epistemology · League · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Realism · Sociology · Soft power · Spectacle · Style (visual arts · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
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| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |