business, culture and the people's game in China, Japan and South Korea /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter and John Horne.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.