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Home Team Away: Watching European Football in Urban China: China Understandings Today

Autor Yuan Gong
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 sep 2026
Home Team Away calls for a rethinking of sport fandom that is divorced from an attachment to location. As the first comprehensive account of the European football fandom in China, this book explores how the Chinese middle class subjectivity is formed through the cross-cultural, digital consumption of the Big Five leagues. Yuan Gong captures the embodied experiences of fans and fan clubs, fan discourses and activities unfolding on digital platforms on Weibo, Weixin, and Hupu, combining fieldwork in Shanghai and virtual ethnography. Gong argues that Chinese fans’ decisions to follow and engage with European football result from their material conditions, ideological contestation, and technology appropriation as a new demographic bloc arising during China’s transition to authoritarian digital capitalism. By engaging with their home teams away, the Chinese middle class fans perform as citizens with a global vision despite the resurgence of the nationalist and anti-Western sentiments.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780472078257
ISBN-10: 0472078259
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: 8 Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
Seria China Understandings Today


Notă biografică

Yuan Gong is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Massey University. 

Cuprins

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The “Big Five” and Middle-Class Taste
Chapter 2: Making Sense of Football Texts 
Chapter 3: Watching Games on Screens
Chapter 4: (Un)forming Fan Communities
Chapter 5: Discussing Fandom Online
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
 

Recenzii

“In the way that it places fandom and the fans’ use of social media within their social context, Home Team Away is one of the best works I have read on fandom and media.”

“The middle classes in post-socialist China have been analyzed through the lens of such dynamics as work, marriage, and housing. Here Yuan Gong provides a completely novel approach that demonstrates how transnational sport fandom creates new configurations of class distinction.”

“Surprisingly little is known about European football’s ‘Big Five’ leagues’ enormous fan base in China. In Home Team Away, Yuan Gong draws on her extensive field and media research on Chinese football cultures in producing an original class-cultural analysis that studiously avoids one-dimensional applications of neoliberal, globalization, and de-Westernization theories.”

Descriere

European football fandom as a cultural process in urban middle-class China