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    Series series Flashpoints
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    Series series Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management
    Football, Business and State Power in Contemporary China investigates the evolving relationship between private enterprise and Party/state authority in the Xi Jinping era, through the lens of the Chinese football industry.In the mid-2010s football emerged as a policy priority of the central leadership, catalysing an unprecedented boom in private investment largely channelled through collaboration ... Read more

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  • Global China and the Global Game in Africa

    China–Africa Engagement through the Lens of Football

    Series Book 6 - Sport in East and Southeast Asian Societies
    The story of China–Africa relations is one of the most important geopolitical and geoeconomic developments of the past two decades. This book uses the interaction between China and African countries in football to critically examine how engagement through football reproduces unequal outcomes but also positive developments on both sides. A multidisciplinary cast of China and Africa scholars ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
    In January 2016, Taiwan’s former authoritarian ruler, the KMT, the Nationalist Party of China, lost control of both the presidency and the legislature. Having led the democratization process in Taiwan during the 1980s, it maintained a winning coalition among big business, the public sector, green-collar workers and local factions. Until now.A New Era in Democratic Taiwan identifies past, present ... Read more

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    Series series Asian Arguments
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    Series series China Today
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