Chapter 1. Introduction – Sports Mega-Events in Asia: Past, Present and Future (John Horne, Koji Kobayashi, Younghan Cho and Jung-Woo Lee)
Chapter 2. Olympic Games and China’s Rise (Susan Brownell)
Chapter 3. Political Ideologies, Two Chinas Issue, Mega-events in Taiwan (Yu-Wen Chen and Tien-Chin Tan)
Chapter 4. Politics of the Asian Games and the East Asian Games in China (Marcus P. Chu)
Chapter 5. Sport Mega-Events and the Contested Terrain of Space, Bodies and Commodities: The Politics and Complexities of Rugby World Cup 2019 (Steven J. Jackson and Koji Kobayashi)
Chapter 6.Environment Eclipsed: Tokyo 2020 Sustainability Initiatives and the Pandemic Postponement (Robin Kietlinski)
Chapter 7. Networking Dissent Voices: Korea-Japan Civic Alliance for Olympic Resistance (Kyoung-Yim Kim, Satoko Itani, Kyung Ryeol Lee and Misako Ichimura)
Chapter 8. Better, Bigger, Bitter – The Rise of the Asian Games in a Toxic Political Environment (Jörg Krieger)
Chapter 9. Inter-Koreanconnection in 2018 at Sport Mega-Events in Asia: From the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang to the Summer Asian Games in Jakarta-Palembang (Jung-Woo Lee and Younghan Cho)
Chapter 10. The Rugby World Cup 2019 and the Politics of Disaster Recovery in Kamaishi, Japan (Masatoshi Mukoyama and Masayuki Takao).-Chapter 11. FIFA 2022 in Qatar: The Clash of Orientalism and Occidentalism (Kamilla Swart-Arries and Umer Hussain)
Chapter 12. Sports Events and Infrastructure of Nostalgia: The Indonesian Asian Games 2018 and ‘the Spirit of 1962’ (Friederike Trotier).