This book explores the interrelationship between urbanisation, Chinese women and sport since the 1980s. It examines how urbanisation has transformed Chinese womens sport with newly emerged functions, values, forms and spaces; how different social factors caused the stratification of womens sports activities; how the modern culture and the traditional culture clashed and impacted on womens emancipation in Chinese society and in sport. According to the author, the development of Chinese womens sport since the 1980s is riddled with complexities and contradictions. Chinese women have ...