Modern Sports in Asia: Cultural Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367739065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 116 str.

Younghan Cho; Charles Leary

Opis

This book traces the history of negotiations between specific cultures in Asia and modern sport cultures from the West. Highly original and clearly written, this textbook will be required reading for students of sport studies, Asian studies, sociology, and cultural studies.

This book was published as a special issue of S

Spis treści

1. Introduction to Modern sports in Asia: cultural perspectives  2. Sports and games in colonial Singapore: 1819 – 1867  3. Towards a national culture: chinlone and the construction of sport in post-colonial Myanmar  4. Beidaihe beach: leisure culture and modernity in Republican China  5. Goodbye Renaissance man: globalized concepts of physical education and sport in Singapore  6. From baseball colony to basketball republic: post-colonial transition and the making of a national sport in the Philippines  7. Cricket and the global Indian identity  8. Keep walking: walking as detour from ‘fitness’ and the building of self-in-isolation and identity in contemporary consumer society

O autorze

Younghan Cho is Associate Professor in the Department of Korean Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

Charles Leary is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at Curtin University Sarawak.