A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China
Hardback
Publication Date: 13/09/2004
By 1907, staff at the Tianjin YMCA were rallying their Chinese charges with the cry: When will China be able to send a winning athlete to the Olympic contests? When will China be able to invite all the world to Peking for an International Olympic contest? Nearly a century later, on the eve of China's first-ever Olympic games, this innovative book shows for the first time how sporting culture and ideology played a crucial role in the making of the modern nation-state in Republican China. A landmark work on the history of sport in China, Marrow of the Nation tells the dramatic story of how Olympic-style competitions and ball games, as well as militarized forms of training associated with the West and Japan, were adapted to become an integral part of the modern Chinese experience.
- ISBN:
- 9780520240841
- 9780520240841
- Category:
- Sports & outdoor recreation
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 13-09-2004
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 400
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x30mm
- Weight:
- 0.77kg
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