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Modern Sports in Asia - Cultural Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Modern Sports in Asia - Cultural Perspectives (Hardcover)
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
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"Modern sports" were introduced to Asia in the late nineteenth
century as an innovation from the West, concurrently with the
development of modern society in Asia. This book traces the
historical developments of sporting cultures in Asia in specific
local contexts - including Singapore, China, Myanmar, Taiwan, the
Philippines, and India - and their intersections with larger social
developments of colonialism, postcolonialism, nationalism, and the
building of modern Asia and its place in a globalized world. The
case studies herein present the social history of modern team
sports with standardized rules such as basketball and cricket, and
less familiar sports such as fives and chinlone, as they vacillate
between global and local perspectives. This book also shows that
modern sports have had an important influence on the makeup of
everyday life in Asia, and the essays here also consider sports'
impact on gender, body culture, and celebrity culture, among other
concerns. This book painstakingly bridges the gaps between Asian
Studies and Sports Studies in a way that reflects the historicity
and multiplicity of sports in Asian societies. By adopting
multi-disciplinary approaches, this book innovatively offers
significant intersection between sociology, cultural studies and
Asian studies of sport in Asia. This book was published as a
special issue of Sport in Society.
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