To live, play, and die in Tianjin: Football as biopolitical assemblage in contemporary China

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In this article, the authors provide a Deleuzoguattarian tracing of a specific set of relationships between traditional Chinese medicine, life, death, and football (soccer). More specifically, the authors examine political, economic, and cultural associations formed in and around the Quanjian Group, a major traditional Chinese medicine company once located in the burgeoning industrial hub of Tianjin. The authors follow Aihwa Ong in abductively examining (de)territorializations of life, sport, and death; examining how the media publics' (in China and beyond) awareness of the death of a young girl in 2015 destabilized a network of capital, state, medicine, and sport and in the process revealed how the vitality of major professional sport in China is situated within, and contingent upon, a vast array of material and nonmaterial (bio)political formations.

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Newman, J. I., Yan, G., Xue, H., & Watanabe, N. M. (2021). To live, play, and die in Tianjin: Football as biopolitical assemblage in contemporary China. Sociology of Sport Journal, 38(3), 251–263. https://doi.org/10.1123/SSJ.2020-0081

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