The new Asia: global transformation, regional ascendancy, and metaphorical modernity

J. A. Mangan

doi:10.1080/09523367.2011.626677

The new Asia: global transformation, regional ascendancy, and metaphorical modernity

J. A. Mangan

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Abstract

A modern equation: money equals modern mega events. The West gets poorer; the East gets richer. Tokyo 1964, Seoul 1988, Beijing 2008 are metonyms for Asian economic metamorphosis. In consequence, the world has witnessed a shift in its geo-political axis-from West to East. Asian ‘Otherness’ has been redefined; the mantra is no longer faded esoteric Asian promise but blooming modernistic Asian achievement. Asia is no longer the object of the complacent but rather the apprehensive Western gaze. Tokyo 1964, Seoul 1988, and above all, Beijing 2008 are metaphors for a deeper and wider modernity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2229-2239
Number of pages	11
Journal	International Journal of the History of Sport
Volume	28
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2011.626677
Publication status	Published - 12 Dec 2011

Keywords

metonym
mega-event
modernity
metaphor
metamorphosis
otherness

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