Sport in Asian society : past and present
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Sport in Asian society : past and present
（Cass series : sport in the global society）
Frank Cass, 2003
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [408]-416
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Linking sport to the emergence and growth of modern Asian society this collection of essays offers a lucid, original and highly readable history of politics, culture and sport in the world's most populous region.
Table of Contents
- Prologue - Asian sport - from the recent past, J.A. Mangan
- imperial origins -Christian manliness, moral imperatives and pre-Sri Lankan playing fields -beginnings, J.A. Mangan
- imperial origins - Christian manliness, moral imperatives and pre-Sri Lankan playing fields - consolidation, J.A. Mangan
- celestials in touch -sport and the Chinese in colonial Singapore, N.G. Aplin and Quek Jon Jong
- "sportsmanship" - English inspiration and Japanese response - F.W. Strange and Chiyosaburo Takeda, Ikuo Abe and J.A. Mangan
- "healthy bodies, healthy minds -sport and society in colonial Malaya, Janice N. Brownfoot
- cricket in colonial India -the Bombay pentangular, 1892-1946, Boria Majumdar
- sport in China - conflict between tradition and modernity, 1840s to 1930s, Fan Hong and Tan Hua
- ideology, politics, power - Korean sport - transformation, 1945-92, Ha Nam-Gil and J.A. Mangan
- shackling the lion - sport and modern Singapore, Peter A. Horton
- the juggernaut of globalization - sport and modernization in Iran, H.E. Chehabi
- "Pancasila" - sport and the building of Indonesia - ambitions and obstacles, Iain Adams
- communist China - sport, politics and diplomacy, Fan Hong and Xiong Xiaozheng
- the road to modernization - sport in Taiwan, Trevor Slack et al
- sport in India - policies, practices and problems, Packianathan Chelladurai et al
- from Iran to all of Asia - the origin and diffusion of polo, H.E. Chehabi and Allen Guttman
- epilogue - into the future - Asian sport and globalization, Fan Hong.
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