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xii, 428 pages ; 23 cm Linking sport to the emergence and growth of modern Asian society this collection of essays offers a lucid, original and highly readable history of politics, culture and sport in the world's most populous region Includes bibliographical references and index Imperial origins: Christian manliness, moral imperatives and pre-Sri Lankan playing fields: consolidation / J.A. Mangan -- Celestials in touch: sport and the Chinese in colonial Singapore / N.G. Aplin and Quek Jon Jong -- "Sportsmanship": English inspiration and Japanese response: F.W. Strange and Chiyosaburo Takeda / Ikuo Abe and J.A. Mangan --- "Healthy bodies, healthy minds -sport and society in colonial Malaya / Janice N. Brownfoot -- Cricket in colonial India: the Bombay Pentangular, 1892-1946 / Boria Majumdar -- Sport in China: conflict between tradition and modernity, 1840s to 1930s / Fan Hong and Tan Hua -- Ideology, politics, power: Korean sport transformation, 1945-92 / Ha Nam-Gil and J.A. Mangan -- Shackling the lion: sport and modern Singapore / Peter A. Horton -- The juggernaut of globalization: sport and modernization in Iran / H.E. Chehabi -- "Pancasila": sport and the building of Indonesia:

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Author

Editor-fan Hong

Publisher

Frank Cass Publishers

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781135760434

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Sports