Marrow of the nation : a history of sport and physical culture in Republican China
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Marrow of the nation : a history of sport and physical culture in Republican China
（Asia : local studies/global themes, 10）
University of California Press, c2004
- : cloth
Available at 15 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-338) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Tables Acknowledgments Foreword by Joseph Alter 1. introduction 2. "now the fun of exercise can be realized": from calisthenics and gymnastics ticao to sports tiyu in the 1910s 3. "mind, muscle, and money": a physical culture for the 1920s 4. nationalism and power in the physical culture of the 1920s 5. "we can also be the controllers and oppressors": social bodies and national physiques 6. elite competitive sport in the 1930s 7. from martial arts to national skills: the construction of a modern indigenous physical culture, 1912--37 8. tiyu through wartime and "liberation" Glossary of Names Glossary of Terms Notes Bibliography Index
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