足球的超体育本性——读路云亭《文明的冲突:足球在中国的传播》

Nature of Soccer Transcends Sports——Notes on Lu Yunting's Clash of Civilizations: The Spread of Soccer in China

路云亭《文明的冲突:足球在中国的传播》,以浪漫而稳重的文笔,站在超越足球运动本身的、历史的和文化的角度,阐释了"什么是足球"、"什么是中国足球"等。它以阐释学的思维触摸了足球的本质,鞭辟入里地分析了中国足球问题的症结所在,并与足改联系在一起。开拓性的思想在书中被浪漫的文字凝聚成独到的学术理论,让读者看到了足球背后超越其体育表象的影响深远的文化现象。

Nowadays, soccer is very popular in China. Society needs an academic work to understand what soccer is and how Chinese soccer will be. The Clash Of Civilizations answers those questions with its romantic writing, rigorous logic, historical and cultural perspectives. The book explains the nature of football with the principle of Hermeneutics, analyzes the root of Chinese football problems, and connects it with the Chinese football reform. Pioneering ideas are integrated into unique academic theories by the ro- mantic text in the book, which make readers notice the cultural phenomenon, which is farreaching, and goes beyond soccer＇s physical appearance.