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Modern Sports in Asia: Cultural Perspectives

Modern Sports in Asia: Cultural Perspectives

Cho, Younghan
Leary, Charles

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Series: Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives

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ISBN10: 0367739062
ISBN13: 9780367739065
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2020
Pages: 126
Language: English

Modern sports were introduced to Asia in the late nineteenth century as an innovation from the West, concurrently with the development of modern society in Asia. This book traces the historical developments of sporting cultures in Asia in specific local contexts - including Singapore, China, Myanmar, Taiwan, the Philippines, and India - and their intersections with larger social developments of colonialism, postcolonialism, nationalism, and the building of modern Asia and its place in a globalized world. The case studies herein present the social history of modern team sports with standardized rules such as basketball and cricket, and less familiar sports such as fives and chinlone, as they vacillate between global and local perspectives. This book also shows that modern sports have had an important influence on the makeup of everyday life in Asia, and the essays here also consider sports' impact on gender, body culture, and celebrity culture, among other concerns.

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