Sport in Asian society : past and present

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Sport in Asian society : past and present

editors, J.A. Mangan, Fan Hong

(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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