Japanese Imperialism: Politics and Sport in East Asia: Rejection, Resentment, Revanchism

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This cutting edge collection presents a political reading of the power of modern sport in Asia. Providing an interdisciplinary study of political and cultural tensions in Asia, past and present, through the key case-study of sport, it illuminates the complex practices and legacies of Japanese imperialism across East and Southeast Asia through the 20th century and beyond. Focusing on the deep background to contemporary dynamics of intraregional tensions, it examines sport both as a tool of imperialism and as an agent of reconciliation as the region gears up to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Offering a unique contribution to East Asian Studies, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and Sport Studies, this work represent key reading for students and scholars of East Asian studies, International Politics and Sports Diplomacy. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Empires: Dead, Dying and Dormant (J.A. Mangan)....Pages 3-5 Front Matter ....Pages 7-7 Empires: West and East—Curious Conjunction and Contemporary Consequences, Complexity and Circumstances (J.A. Mangan)....Pages 9-39 Front Matter ....Pages 41-41 Japanese Imperial Sport as Failed Cultural Conditioning: Korean ‘Recalcitrance’ (J.A. Mangan, Kyongho Park, Gwang Ok)....Pages 43-69 The Unclosed Door: South Korea’s Postcolonial Sport as a Revanchist Reaction to Japanese Imperial Legacies (Sun-Yong Kwon, J.A. Mangan)....Pages 71-109 Front Matter ....Pages 111-111 A Living Legacy (Part One): Japanese Imperialism and Chinese Revanchism—Modern Sport as a Modern Medium (Jinxia Dong, Tianwei Ren, J.A. Mangan)....Pages 113-150 A Living Legacy (Part Two): Japanese Imperialism—Residual Resentment and an Unforgiving China: The Sports Cartoon as Political Aide-Memoire (Tianwei Ren, J. A. Mangan)....Pages 151-192 Front Matter ....Pages 193-193 Japanese Cultural Imperialism in Taiwan: Judo as an Instrument of Colonial Conditioning (Dong-Jhy Hwang, J.A. Mangan)....Pages 195-216 Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Control: Sport as a Component of Cultural Conditioning, Political Domination, and Militaristic Imperialism (Chien-Shing Lee, J.A. Mangan, Gwang Ok)....Pages 217-242 Front Matter ....Pages 243-243 A Clash of Colonialisms: Sports Culture in Hong Kong Under the Japanese Occupation (Brian Bridges, David R. Phillips)....Pages 245-278 The Ambivalence of the Reaction, Response, Legacy and War Memory: The Japanese Occupation of the Malayan Peninsula: The Consequences for Sport of the Imperial Past and the Democratic Present (Peter Horton)....Pages 279-334 Front Matter ....Pages 335-335 Towards the Construction of a New Regionalism? The End of East Asian Colonialism: Japanese Responses and Reactions to the Games of Asia (Keiko Ikeda, J. A. Mangan)....Pages 337-363 Tokyo 2020: Opportunity for Regional Reconciliation or Protracted Antagonism? (Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu)....Pages 365-388 Front Matter ....Pages 389-389 Retained Memories, Political Pressures, Catalytic Moments Tokyo 2020: Reconciliation? (J.A. Mangan)....Pages 391-417 Front Matter ....Pages 419-419 ‘The Past is a Present Country’ (J.A. Mangan)....Pages 421-434 Back Matter ....Pages 435-453