Training the Body for China - Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic

Acknowledgments1: Winning Glory for Beijing2: Historical Overview: Sports, the Body, and the Nation3: Public Culture: On Sports Clubs, Public Events, and Representation4: Body Culture and Consumer Culture in China's 1987 National Games5: Qing Dynasty Grand Sacrifice and Communist National Games: Rituals of the Chinese State?6: Training the Body for China: Civilization, Discipline, and Social Order7: "Those Who Work with Their Brains Rule; Those Who Work with Their Brawn Are Ruled"8: Sex, the Body, and History in Chinese and Western Sports9: Bodies, Boundaries, and the State10: "Obscene" Bodies, the State, and Popular Movements: Bodybuilding and Old People's Disco11: "Face" and "Fair Play": Sports and Morality in the Economic ReformsEpilogue: Beijing's Bid for the 2000 Olympic GamesSelect Glossary of Chinese Terms and NamesReferencesIndex

Summary

This text draws on direct experience of Chinese athletics to provide an insight into the culture of sports and the body in China. It uses the culture of the body as a focal point to explore how gender, the body and the nation are interlinked in Chinese culture.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Brownell, Brownell Susan
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1995
• EAN: 9780226076478
• ISBN: 978-0-226-07647-8
• No. of pages: 401
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 624 g
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; China, Cultural Studies, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sport: general