Overview
- Considers sport as a key agent in East Asian regional geopolitics.
- Examines the legacies of Japanese imperialism in light of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
- Provides a key contribution to the fields of East Asian studies, international politics and sports diplomacy.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Prelude
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Prologue
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Regional Reactions and Responses: Korea
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Regional Reactions and Responses: China
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Regional Reactions and Responses: Taiwan
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Regional Reactions and Responses: Hong Kong and Singapore
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Revanchism or Reconciliation?
Reviews
“Japanese Imperialism is an interesting and attractive study, especially for Asian historians. I am confident this collection will be successful: it is a wonderful work of scholarship. Reflections on the Tokyo Olympics of 2020 as an agent of regional reconciliation are constructive and important contributions to the future of East Asian politics.” (IkuoAbe, Emeritus Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan)
“This collection is the best compilation of scholarly work available in English on the relationship between Japanese imperialism and sport; thus is a seminal work in the field. The well-constructed addresses the overarching theme that sport was used in the Japanese Empire as a form of indoctrination, but for Japan’s subject peoples in China, Taiwan, Korea, and Malaya it was a form of resistance. Sport during the Japanese Occupation has left a lasting legacy. Its consideration adds to the uniqueness of the collection. This book will be valuable for both scholars of the cultural history of the Japanese Empire and for students covering the history of modern Japan and the Japanese Occupation of East Asia.” (Kevin P. Blackburn, Associate Professor, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; author The Sportsmen of Changi, 2012)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Dr Peter Horton is Hon. Fellow at Australian Catholic University and has taught at James Cook University, Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology, the Communication University of China, Beijing and Nanyang Technological University.
Tianwei Ren is International Coordinator, International League of Higher Education in Media and Communication, Communication University of China, and holds a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Dr Gwang Ok is an Associate Professor at Chungbuk National University, South Korea, regional board editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport and editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Japanese Imperialism: Politics and Sport in East Asia
Book Subtitle: Rejection, Resentment, Revanchism
Editors: J.A. Mangan, Peter Horton, Tianwei Ren, Gwang Ok
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5104-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5103-6Published: 24 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5320-8Published: 04 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5104-3Published: 11 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 453
Number of Illustrations: 49 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, History of Japan, Regional and Cultural Studies, Political Science and International Relations, general