business, culture and the people's game in China, Japan and South Korea /
edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter and John Horne.
New York :
Routledge,
2004.
1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) :
illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Football, culture, globalisation: why professional football has been going East; The business of football in East Asian nation-states; Strategies for locating professional sports leagues: a comparison between France and Korea; The making of a professional football league: the design of the J. League system; Football in the People's Republic of China; Players and supporters of the East Asian game; Japanese football players and the sport talent migration business.
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Global popular culture and big business have revolutionised the East in a generation. Football, Sport of the masses and now commercial super power, has travelled with this tide of change in the East in its own right.