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.

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 Chinäs 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. Chinäs sports policy and politics in the post-Beijing Olympics era