Global sports and contemporary China : sport policy, international relations and new class identities in the people's republic
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Global sports and contemporary China : sport policy, international relations and new class identities in the people's republic
(Global culture and sport / series editors Stephen Wagg and David Andrews)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2023
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the formation of a globally oriented sports system in China, from the beginning of the reform process in 1978 to the present, focusing on the period after the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. It analyses how this system has shaped domestic social class identities and its role in international Chinese state politics. Despite advances in the marketization of the sports industry through previous eras, the Chinese state expanded investment in a set of global sports following the heavily government-directed drive towards national success at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games. This would be a time when the government focused on policies set to service a growing domestic middle-class and an increasingly wide-ranging set of international interests, with sporting investments being at the heart of their strategic plan. However, reform has proven difficult. The book presents a well-rounded account of this effort with tennis and soccer providing important case studies of the internal and external dynamics of this time. As such, the book will be of interest to researchers and students of globalization of sport, those studying East Asian sports development, and those who are interested in understanding China more broadly.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Global Sport in Contemporary China.- Chapter 2: Chinese Sport Policy from Reform to the Millennium.- Chapter 3: An Olympic China: Sport and the Preparation for Beijing 2008.- Chapter 4: Global Sports and Shifting Focus: Sport Policy, Investment, and the Inter-Olympic Period.- Chapter 5: Sport and Accessing a Global Community.- Chapter 6: When the Global Game Comes to the People's Republic.- Chapter 7: New forms of Domestic Distinction: Sport and Contemporary Chinese Class Structure.- Chapter 8: Tennis Culture and the Booming Urban Middle Class.- Chapter 9: China's Sporting Self Determination: Achieving independent global sporting dominance.
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