Asian Games culture and Asia-Pacific Community with a shared future Mengchu Li (a), Bo Zhang (b)
a) School of Foreign Languages,Sports History Institute of Chengdu Sport University
No.2 Tiyuan Road, Wuhou District, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China
b) Sports History Institute of Chengdu Sport University
No.2 Tiyuan Road, Wuhou District, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China
Abstract
This study explores the significance of Asian Games culture to the construction of Asia-Pacific Community with a shared future. The research holds that Asian Games culture contains profound humanistic value of Asian sports, which is of great complementary significance to the Western sports culture. With the trend of economic and political revival in Asia, the culture of the Asian Games also presents an opportunity for self-innovation.
Asian Games culture can be divided into material culture, spiritual culture, system culture and so on. In the past 17 Asian Games, the organizers have embedded the local culture in the Asian Games culture, and reflected in the Asian Games emblem, mascot, torch, medals and other material culture. For example, the yellow color in the emblem of the Doha Asian Games shows the life and customs of the Arab nation.
According to the research, the realistic path of the Asian Games culture to build a Asia-Pacific Community with a shared future aims at three key points :(1) strengthening the discourse power of Asian sports. (2) Interpret the connotation of Asia-Pacific Community with a shared future through the Asian Games culture. (3) Improving the integration of Asian Games culture and local culture.
Asian Games culture cannot be separated from the breeding of Asian regional culture. The former is not only the realistic representation of the latter, but also the source of the latter^s thoughts. In the process of globalization, the Asian Games has a new meaning of construction: First, as a part of Asian culture, Asian Games culture strives for the right to speak in the field of sports events that matches its influence- Secondly, in the face of the trend of deepening integration of world culture, the Asian Games need to share with the world the innovative cultural power represented by harmony but difference in Asian culture.
Keywords: Asian Games culture- Asia-Pacific Community with a shared future- intregration development
