The Asian Games: Modern Metaphor for ‘The Middle Kingdom’ Reborn

Abstract

Preface: A Regional and Global Symbolic Proclamation Foreword: Holding Up More Than Half the Asian Sky 1. Introduction: Marketing 'Brand China': Maintaining the Momentum - 'The Middle Kingdom' Resurgent and Resplendent Part One: Chinese Motives: Realism, Rivalries and 'Reassertion' 2. People's Daily: An Evolutionary Narrative on Asia in Its Coverage of the Asian Games 3. The Pursuit of Regional Geopolitical Aspirations: China's Bids for the Asian Games and the Asian Winter Games since the 1980s 4. Strict Compliance!: Chinese Careful Conformity and the Guangzhou Bid for the Asian Games 5. 'Glittering Guangzhou': The 2010 Asian Games - Local Rivalries, National Motives, Geopolitical Gestures 6. Chinese Desires? Olympism and Dominance, Guangzhou and Missed Opportunity, Major Leagues and Isolation on the Pacific Rim Part Two: Pacific Rim Reactions and Responses 7. Guangzhou 2010: Eastern Orwellian Echoes - Yang Shu-chun and a Taiwanese Patriotic Media Offensive 8. From Honeymoon to Divorce: Fragmenting Relations between China and South Korea in Politics, Economics - and Sport 9. Rivalries: China, Japan and South Korea - Memory, Modernity, Politics, Geopolitics - and Sport 10. Guangzhou 2010: Singapore at a Global Crossroads 11. Guangzhou: The Asian Games and the Chinese 'Gold-Fest' - Geopolitical Issues for Australia Part Three: The Pacific Rim and Beyond: Confrontation and Cooperation 12. The Asian Games and Diplomacy in Asia: Korea - China - Russia