Marcus is currently a visiting fellow at VR成人视频, 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
- Marcus P. Chu. . International Journal of the History of Sport 38:18 (2022), pp.1880-1899. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2021.2023131
- Marcus P. Chu. . International Journal of the History of Sport 35:12-13 (2018), pp. 1306-1324. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2019.1593146
- Marcus P. Chu. . Sport in Society 20:11 (2017), pp.1667-1683. DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2017.1310200
- Marcus P. Chu. . Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science 6:1 (2017), pp.19-33. DOI: 10.1080/21640599.2016.1277083
- Marcus P. Chu. . International Journal of the History of Sport 33:11 (2016), pp.1193-1208. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2016.1267149
- Marcus P. Chu. . International Journal of the History of Sport 33:11 (2016), pp.1254-1267. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2016.1264390
- Marcus P. Chu.. Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science 5:3 (2016), pp. 202-214. DOI: 10.1080/21640599.2016.1253184
- Marcus P. Chu. . Sport in Society 19:10 (2016), pp.1622-1634. DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1159197
- Marcus P. Chu. . Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science 5:2 (2016), pp.120-131. DOI: 10.1080/21640599.2016.1193302
- Marcus P. Chu. . Sports in Society 18:6 (2015), pp.704-716. DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2014.982545
- Marcus P. Chu. . Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science 5:2 (2015), pp: 124-133. DOI: 10.1080/21640599.2015.1079986
- Marcus P. Chu. . Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science 3:1 (2014), pp.20-31. DOI: 10.1080/21640599.2014.882614
- Marcus P. Chu. International Journal of the History of Sport 30:15 (2013), pp.1748-1757. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2013.854777
- Marcus P. Chu. . International Journal of the History of Sport 30:15 (2013), pp.1735-1747. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2013.811646
- Marcus P. Chu. . International Journal of the History of Sport 30:10 (2013), pp.1059-1070. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2013.787529
- Marcus P. Chu. . International Journal of the History of Sport 30:10 (2013), pp.1048-1058. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2013.787528