Dr Marcus Chu

BSocSc, MA, PhD

Pronouns: He/him
  • Visiting Fellow in Sport and Politics

Research groups and centres

Marcus Chu

Marcus is currently a visiting fellow at Loughborough University, collaborating with Professor Alan Bairner in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences. The focus of his research is on sports mega-events, the Olympic movement, women’s sport and the sport-politics nexus in Chinese-speaking regions.

Featured publications

Books

  • Marcus P. Chu, Greater China’s Olympic Medal Haul: Beyond Sports Excellence (London: Routledge, 2024). 
  • Marcus P. Chu, China, Taiwan, and International Sporting Events: Face-off in Cross-Strait Relations (London: Routledge, 2023).
  • Marcus P. Chu, Sporting Events in China as Economic Development, National Image, and Political Ambition (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
  • Marcus P. Chu, China’s Quest for Sporting Mega-Events: The Politics of International Bids (London: Routledge, 2021). 
  • Marcus P. Chu, Politics of Mega-Events in China’s Hong Kong and Macao (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). 

Edited Books

  • Brian Bridges and Marcus P. Chu (eds.), The Sports Development of Hong Kong and Macau: New Challenges after the Handovers (London: Routledge, 2018).
  • J.A. Mangan; Marcus P. Chu; and Jinxia Dong (eds.), The Asian Games: Modern Metaphor for ‘The Middle Kingdom’ Reborn – Political Statement, Cultural Assertion, Social Symbol (London: Routledge, 2014).

Book Chapters

  • Vic Y.W. Li and Marcus P. Chu, “China’s Rise to the Global Sports Power,” in Hanna Kups, Maciej Szatkowski, and Michal Dahl (eds.), China under Xi Jinping: An Interdisciplinary Assessment (Leiden: Brill, 2024), pp.475-498.
  • Marcus P. Chu, “China and Taiwan: Face-Off Sports Bids: Unanswered Questions – The Geopolitics of East Asian Sports,” in Alan Bairner, Chen Tzs-hsuan, and Chiang Ying (eds.), Sport in Taiwan: History, Culture, and Policy (Lausanne: Peter Lang, 2023), pp.229-246.
  • Marcus P. Chu, “Politics of the Asian Games and the East Asian Games in China,” in Koji Kobayashi, John Horne, Cho Younghan, and Lee Jung Woo (eds.), Sports Mega-Events in Asia (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2023), pp.169-195.
  • Marcus P. Chu, “International Sporting Bids, China, and the Relations with Its Neighbours,” in Fan Hong and Liu Li (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Sport in China (London: Routledge, 2023), pp.111-117. 
  • Marcus P. Chu, “Leveraging Mega-Events to Embrace Chinese National Identity: The Politics of Hong Kong’s Participation in the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the Shanghai 2010 World Expo,” in Lu Zhouxiang (ed.), Chinese National Identity in the Age of Globalisation (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. 309-332.
  • Marcus P. Chu, “Politics and Policy of Forging Post-Handover Hong Kong as Sporting Mega-event Centre,” in Fan Hong and Lu Zhouxiang (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sport in Asia (London: Routledge, 2020), pp.271-278. 

Journal Articles