The triple Asian Olympics: Asia rising : the pursuit of national identity, international recognition and global esteem

Preface : Korean conjunction : a meeting of East and West / Gwang Ok

Prologue : the new Asia : global transformation, regional ascendancy, and metaphorical modernity / J.A. Mangan

East Asian Olympic desires : identity on the global stage in the 1964 Tokyo, 1988 Seoul and 2008 Beijing games / Sandra Collins

East Asian Olympics, Beijing 2008, and the globalisation of sport / William W. Kelly

Catching up : understanding the pursuit of major games by rising developmental states / David Black and Byron Peacock

A comparative analysis of the Olympic impact in East Asia : from Japan, South Korea to China / Ying Yu and Jiangyong Liu

Phoenix arisen : Japan as peaceful internationalist at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics / Paul Droubie

Indeterminate nationalism represented in the last twentieth century Olympic Games, the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics / Takayuki Yamashita

From the destruction of image to the reconstruction of image : a sports mega-event and the resurgence of a nation

the politics of sport exemplified / J.A. Mangan, Gwang Ok and Kyoungho Park

Third time lucky? : PyeongChang's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics

politics, policy and practice / Udo Merkel and Misuk Kim

The making of a modest mega-event : Hong Kong and the 2009 East Asian games / Brian Bridges

Sociality of losing? : speculations on the Beijing Olympics and emergent forms of Chinese capitalism / Guangtian Ha

Epilogue : Asia rising

changing circumstances and shifting successes : sport as a metonymy for regional renaissance / Sandra Collins.