"East Asia is increasingly prominent within global sport. In the short period between 2018 and 2022 it will have held two Winter and one Summer Olympics, and the Rugby World Cup for good measure. This is not a sudden development. It has been in train for some time, although many scholars, especially in Europe and North America, have been focussed primarily on sport in their own countries and regions. J.A. Mangan, who for decades has been looking closely at sport in East Asia while encouraging others to do likewise, has made a major contribution to knowledge and understanding of a once under-appreciated subject. This excellent collection in his honour analyses the key interwoven elements of sport, media and nation in China, Japan and South Korea. It demonstrates how the structure and practice of sport connects in myriad ways with its representation, not least with regard to national narratives, international rivalries and transnational trends. It is a book that does signal justice both to East Asian Studies and to the academic who recognised the importance of sport to that field, and who has done so much to ensure that the region is centrally placed within any contemporary analysis of the world of sport."

Tianwei Ren is International Coordinator, Faculty of International Media, Communication University of China (CUC). B.A. from Nanjing University, China, M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, Ph.D. candidate of Party School of the Central Committee of CPC. She is a commissioning editor of the journal Global Media and China, and is involved in academic liaison and editing for many publications. Her research interests include the construction of political and social image and identity via the modern media, particularly the media as means of national projection, representation and identity in a period of increasing acceleration of the East Asian nations to the centre of the world stage.

Keiko Ikeda is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, where she specializes in, Educational and Social Developmental Studies. Professor Ikeda researches and publishes in a wide area including topics stemming from the history of sport (particularly British and Japanese), sport journalism and feminism in sport. She has been a visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social History at University of Warwick, and in the International Centre for Sport History at De Montfort University. Since 2009 Professor Ikeda has been a member of ISHPES Council and is currently Vice-President of ISHPES since 2017.

Chang Wan Woo, Ph.D. (The University of Alabama, U.S.A.) is an associate professor in the School of Communication Studies at James Madison University, where he teaches public relations courses including Sports Public Relations, Public Relations Management, and Public Relations Campaign. Chang Wan is a founding member of the International Association for Communication and Sports and currently serves as a coordinator for the sport communication minor program at JMU and a faculty adviser of the JMU Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America.