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Susan Brownell

Training the Body for China

Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic

401 pages, 23 halftones, 1 line drawing, 8 tables, glossary of Chinese terms  6 x 9  © 1995

Cloth $70.00

ISBN: 9780226076461   Published August 1995

Paper $32.00

ISBN: 9780226076478   Published August 1995

Acknowledgments
1: Winning Glory for Beijing
2: Historical Overview: Sports, the Body, and the Nation
3: Public Culture: On Sports Clubs, Public Events, and Representation
4: Body Culture and Consumer Culture in China's 1987 National Games
5: Qing Dynasty Grand Sacrifice and Communist National Games: Rituals of the Chinese State?
6: Training the Body for China: Civilization, Discipline, and Social Order
7: "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 Sports
9: Bodies, Boundaries, and the State
10: "Obscene" Bodies, the State, and Popular Movements: Bodybuilding and Old People's Disco
11: "Face" and "Fair Play": Sports and Morality in the Economic Reforms
Epilogue: Beijing's Bid for the 2000 Olympic Games
Select Glossary of Chinese Terms and Names
References
Index
Subjects



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