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Zusatztext An excellent insight into China's cultural history and on that basis an introduction to the ambivalence and complexity that has characterised and still characterises the perceptions of modern sport. Informationen zum Autor Professor Grant Jarvie is Deputy Principal and Chair of Sports Studies at the University of Stirling. He is past President of the British Society of Sports History and Honorary Professor with the Academy of Physical Education and Sport, Warsaw. Dr. Dong-Jhy Hwang is Associate Professor with The National College of Physical Education and Sports in Taiwan. Mel Brennan is a lecturer, Towson University (USA). Mel is the former Head of Special Projects for CONCACAF, a confederation of FIFA. Klappentext The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes - most notoriously the Nazis in 1936. What has led to this perception and is it fair? Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics is a cultural history of sport in China and challenges many such ingrained Western assumptions. The authors unpick the relationship of sport to imperialism and revolution, and examine its significance in both China and Taiwan at governmental and everyday levels. In the process, they successfully debunk harmful myths, such as the prevalence of drugs in Chinese sport among women athletes, and present a balanced view that is a much-needed corrective to popular understanding. Zusammenfassung The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing but human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes - most notoriously the Nazis in 1936. What has led to this perception? This book debunks myths such as the prevalence of drugs in Chinese sport among women. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Sport, Physical Culture, Revolution and the Beijing Olympic Games: An Introduction. 2. Sport, Physical Culture and Western Faith Invaders3. Sport, Physical Culture, Nationalism and the Chinese Republic4. Socialism, Health, Soviet Sport and the Cultural Revolution5. Reform, Opening Up and Making Sense of Modern Sport in China6. Capitalist Sport, The Beijing Olympics and Human Rights ?7. Sport, Social Change and the Public Intellectual...
