Abstract
This chapter addresses key manifestations of football in Australia’s relationship with China: Australia’s identity and China’s approach to recognition of Australia as an Asian football country (for example, the foreign player rules regarding Australian players in the Chinese Super League, and attitudes of Chinese and Australian football fans towards Australia competing in Asian competitions); Chinese interest in football in Australia, including actual and proposed ownership of A-League clubs and inter-club networking; and orientations to football among Chinese–Australian communities, particularly the positioning of grassroots Chinese leagues and football fan connections to the game in Australia. In bringing these various threads together, we seek to illuminate football’s global, regional and national dynamics, while exposing the many ways in which the game—and sport in general—is inevitably embedded in social, political, cultural and economic relations ranging from the hyper-local to the global.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy: The Chinese Dream |
Editors | J. A. Mangan, Peter Horton, Christian Tagsold |
Place of Publication | U.S. |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 285-306 |
Number of pages | 22 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781433173646 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781433168819 |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |