Fan Hong, Lu Zhouxiang

The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China

Communists and Champions

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the relationships between sport, diplomacy and politics in China. It examines how sport has become a vehicle for Chinese national revival and international recognition. It explores the complexity of sport in modern China and discusses how power is achieved through political exploitation of Chinese athletes' bodies. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 183mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415644952
• ISBN-10: 041564495X
• Artikelnr.: 37184314

Autorenporträt

Professor Fan Hong is the Head of the School of Asian Studies at University College Cork and an academic editor of The International Journal for the History of Sport. Dr Lu Zhouxiong is Lecturer of Contemporary Chinese Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures at the National University Ireland Maynooth.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Representing the New China and the Sovietisation of Chinese sport
(1949-1962) 2. Sport, militarism and diplomacy: training bodies for China
(1960-1966) 3. Sport in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
(1966-1976) 4. Sport and politics in the 1980s: the Olympic Strategy 5.
China, the Asian Games and Asian politics (1974-2006) 6. From Barcelona to
Athens (1992-2004): 'Juguo Tizhi' and China's quest for global power and
Olympic glory 7. The politics of doping and anti-doping in Chinese sport 8.
Beijing's two bids for the Olympics: the political games 9. The
politicisation of the Beijing Olympics 10. China's sports policy and
politics in the post-Beijing Olympics era