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Title Sport in Asian society : past and present / editors, J.A. Mangan, Fan Hong.

Publication Info. London ; Portland, OR : F. Cass, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 428 pages).
text file
Series Sport in the global society
Sport in the global society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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: ambitions and obstacles / Iain Adams -- Communist China: sport, politics and diplomacy / Fan Hong and Xiong Xiaozheng -- The road to modernization: sport in Taiwan / Trevor Slack ⁵ [and others] -- Sport in modern India: policies, practices and problems / Packianathan Chelladurai ⁵ [and others] -- From Iran to all of Asia: the origin and diffusion of polo / H.E. Chehabi and Allen Guttman -- Epilogue: into the future: Asian sport and globalization / Fan Hong.
Summary 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.
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Subject Sports -- Asia -- History.
Sports.
Asia.
History.
Sports -- Social aspects -- Asia.
Sports -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Mangan, J. A.
Fan, Hong, 1957-
Other Form: Print version: Sport in Asian society. London ; Portland, OR : F. Cass, 2003 (DLC) 2002151405
ISBN 0203497422 (electronic book)
9780203497425 (electronic book)
071465342X (Cloth)
0714683302 (paper)
0203583531 (Adobe eReader Format)