| Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China Contributor(s): Morris, Andrew D. (Author), Alter, Joseph S. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0520240847 ISBN-13: 9780520240841 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $84.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: "This is the first book about how new ideas of sport and the body shaped the Chinese nation in its early formative years. It is a much-needed contribution toward understanding the origins of China's long quest to host an Olympic Games. This engaging book presents little-known material gleaned with great skill from archives in China, Taiwan, and the U.S. Informed by current theoretical debates, it pulls together in a sophisticated way the pieces of the complex relationship between the body and the nation in China, and it offers creative interpretations of this pivotal period in Chinese history."--Susan Brownell, author of "Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | History - History | Asia - General |
| Dewey: 796.095 |
| LCCN: 2004001057 |
| Series: Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 6.3" W x 9.32" (1.70 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |