The Sports Development of Hong Kong and Macau: New Challenges After the Handovers

ISBN-13: 9780815396291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 156 str.

Brian Bridges; Marcus P. Chu

Opis

From historical and social science perspectives this volume provides a wide-ranging account of the challenges to and outcomes of sports development in Hong Kong and Macau after the two handovers. The chapters were originally published in The International Journal of the History of Sport.

O autorze

Brian Bridges is an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Formerly Head of that Department (2007–10), he specialises in the international politics and modern history of the Asian Pacific region, with a particular focus on the sport–politics nexus. His most recent book is The Two Koreas and the Politics of Global Sport (2012).

Marcus P. Chu is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, where he has been teaching since 2012. He has published extensively on the politics of sport in China and is working on a book project exploring the history and politics of sporting mega-events in the greater China region.