Modern sports in Asia : cultural perspectives. edited by Younghan Cho ; Charles Leary.

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1. Introduction to Modern sports in Asia: cultural perspectives 2. Sports and games in colonial Singapore: 1819 - 1867 3. Towards a national culture: chinlone and the construction of sport in post-colonial Myanmar 4. Beidaihe beach: leisure culture and modernity in Republican China 5. Goodbye Renaissance man: globalized concepts of physical education and sport in Singapore 6. From baseball colony to basketball republic: post-colonial transition and the making of a national sport in the Philippines 7. Cricket and the global Indian identity 8. Keep walking: walking as detour from 'fitness' and the building of self-in-isolation and identity in contemporary consumer society.