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Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China

Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China

Morris, Andrew D.
Alter, Joseph S.

Hardcover

Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes, Book 10

FictionGeneral Asian History

ISBN10: 0520240847
ISBN13: 9780520240841
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Sep 13 2004
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
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.

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