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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sport in the global society - Contemporary perspectivesLondon ; New York : Routledge/ Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Description: x, 116 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781138819849
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Sports.; Online version:: Sports.LOC classification:
  • GV 649 .M720 2015
Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: SSOC111_UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS | SSOC111_UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS (NEW)
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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.

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