The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communists and Champions

ISBN-13: 9780415644952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 232 str.

Fan Hong;Lu Zhouxiang

Opis

This volume examines, in chronological order, key issues in sport in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 2012 in the context of Chinese history, politics and society. It explores the complexity of Chinese sport including the sovietisation of Chinese sports policy and practice; the emergence of the 'two Chinas' issue; the Cold War, the Cultural Revolution, sports diplomacy and sports militarism; China's turbulent journey of participation in the Asian Games and in the Olympics; the politics and policy of doping and anti-doping in Chinese sport; and China's sport in the post-Beijing Olympics era.

Spis treści

1. Representing the New China and the Sovietisation of Chinese sport (1949–1962)  2. Sport, militarism and diplomacy: training bodies for China (1960–1966)  3. Sport in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976)  4. Sport and politics in the 1980s: the Olympic Strategy  5. China, the Asian Games and Asian politics (1974–2006)  6. From Barcelona to Athens (1992–2004): ‘Juguo Tizhi’ and China’s quest for global power and Olympic glory  7. The politics of doping and anti-doping in Chinese sport  8. Beijing’s two bids for the Olympics: the political games  9. The politicisation of the Beijing Olympics  10. China’s sports policy and politics in the post-Beijing Olympics era

O autorze

Professor Fan Hong is the Head of the School of Asian Studies at University College Cork and an academic editor of The International Journal for the History of Sport. Dr Lu Zhouxiong is Lecturer of Contemporary Chinese Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures at the National University Ireland Maynooth.