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1. The Triple Asian Olympics – Asia Ascendant

   Media, Politics, Geopolitics

   Edited by J.A. Mangan, Luo Qing, Sandra Collins

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   The Triple Asian Olympic Games - Asia Ascendant: Media, Politics and Geopolitics is the companion publication to The Triple Asian Olympics: Asia Rising - The Pursuit of National Identity, International Recognition and Global Esteem. It deals, uniquely, with the role of the modern media in...

   To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge
2. Olympism: The Global Vision

   From Nationalism to Internationalism

   Edited by Boria Majumdar, Sandra Collins

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   The collection starts from the premise that Olympism and the Olympic Games make sense only when they are placed within the broader national, colonial and post colonial contexts and argues that sport not only influences politics and vice-versa, but that the two are inseparable. Sport is not only...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics

   Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement

   By Sandra Collins

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   By representing their experience of modernity as different from the West in their respective Olympic Games, Asian nations reveal much about the ambitions and anxieties of being an Asian host in the continuing western Olympic hegemony. This original work explores the encounter between ‘the East and...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Triple Asian Olympics - Asia Rising

   The Pursuit of National Identity, International Recognition and Global Esteem

   Edited by J. A. Mangan, Sandra Collins, Gwang Ok

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Realpolitik as a component of the Olympic Games held in East Asia has been largely ignored by historians. However, sport was an integral part of cultural diplomacy and the expression of national prowess for the three Games held in East Asia: 1964 Tokyo, 1988 Seoul and 2008 Beijing. It is time...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. Olympism: The Global Vision

   From Nationalism to Internationalism

   Edited by Boria Majumdar, Sandra Collins

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   The collection starts from the premise that Olympism and the Olympic Games make sense only when they are placed within the broader national, colonial and post colonial contexts and argues that sport not only influences politics and vice-versa, but that the two are inseparable. Sport is not only...

   Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge
6. The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics

   Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement

   By Sandra Collins

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   By representing their experience of modernity as different from the West in their respective Olympic Games, Asian nations reveal much about the ambitions and anxieties of being an Asian host in the continuing western Olympic hegemony. This original work explores the encounter between ‘the East and...

   Published October 20th 2008 by Routledge