Sport, Nationalism and Orientalism: The Asian Games

ISBN-13: 9780415568500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 130 str.

Fan Hong

Opis

Focusing solely on the Asian Games, this title is an analysis of the Oriental rival to the Olympics in terms of its geopolitical, economic, sociological historical, racial and aesthetic context, looking at its birth, growth and maturation from 1913 up until 2006.

Spis treści

Prologue: The Origin of the Asian Games: Power and Politics. Fan Hong. 1. India and the Asian Games: From Infancy to Maturity. Mithlesh K. Singh Sisodia. 2. Indonesia and the Asian Games: Sport, Nationalism and the 'New Order'. Rusli Lutan. 3. The Politicization of Sport: GANEFO - A Case Study. Rusli Lutan and Fan Hong. 4. Thailand and the Asian Games: Coping with Crisis. Sombat Karnjanakit and Supitr Samahito. 5. Iran and the Asian Games: The Largest Sports Event in the Middle East. Ali-Mohammad Amirtash. 6. South Korea and the Asian Games: The First Step to the World. Eunha Koh. 7. Communist China and the Asian Games 1951-1990: The Thirty-nine Year Struggle to Victory. Fan Hong. 8. 2006 Qatar Asian Games: A 'Modernization' Project from Above?. Mahfoud Amara. Epilogue: Nationalism, Orientalism and Globalization: The Future of the Asian Games. Fan Hong. Table. The Far Eastern Championship Games 1913-1934. Huan Xiong. Table. The Asian Games 1951-2002. Ping Wu.

O autorze

Fan Hong is a professor and the Director of the Irish Institute of Chinese Studies at University College Cork. She is a regional editor of the International Journal of the History of Sport and a member of various editorial boards including the Sports Studies Journal and the International Encyclopedia of Women and Sport.