Asian Sport Celebrity

Koji Kobayashi is Associate Professor in the Center for Glocal Strategy at Otaru University of Commerce, Japan, and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Lincoln University, New Zealand. His research interests include globalization, cultural production, practice of representation, and identity politics as they relate to sport and recreation. Younghan Cho is Professor of Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International and Area Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. He has published widely on global sports, fans and celebrity, the Korean Wave and East Asian pop culture, and nationalism and modernity in Korea and East Asian society.

• Introduction: Asian Sport Celebrity: The Nexus of Race, Ethnicity, and RegionalityKoji Kobayashi and Younghan Cho1. 'Ono, oh Yes!': An A-League Tensai (Genius) Made in JapanBrent McDonald and Jorge Knijnik2. Globalization, Migration, Citizenship, and Sport Celebrity: Locating Lydia Ko between and beyond New Zealand and South KoreaIk Young Chang, Steve Jackson and Minhyeok Tak3. Reading Tiffany Chin: The Birth of the Oriental Female Skater on White IceJae Chul Seo, Robert Turick and Daehwan Kim4. Disrupting the Nation-ness in Postcolonial East Asia: Discourses of Jong Tae-Se as a Zainichi Korean Sport CelebrityYounghan Cho and Koji Kobayashi5. The Absent Savior? Nationalism, Migration, and Football in TaiwanTzu-hsuan Chen and Ying Chiang6. The Heroic White Man and the Fragile Asian Girl: Racialized and Gendered Orientalism in Olympic Figure SkatingChuyun Oh7. Reading Yani Tseng: Articulating Golf, Taiwanese Nationalism, and Gender Politics in Twenty-First-Century TaiwanDaniel Yu-Kuei Sun8. China’s Sports Heroes: Nationalism, Patriotism, and Gold MedalLu Zhouxiang and Fan Hong9. Sports Celebrities and the Spectacularization of Modernity at the Far Eastern Championship Games, 1913–1934Lou Antolihao