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
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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
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