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Pan-Asian sports and the emergence of modern Asia, 1913-1974 / Stefan Huebner.
LIBRA GV649 .H84 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Huebner, Stefan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Social aspects--Asia--History.
- Sports.
- Nationalism and sports--Asia--History.
- Nationalism and sports.
- Civilization.
- History.
- Sports--Social aspects.
- Asia--Civilization--20th century.
- Asia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 397 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : NUS Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Muscular Christianity and the 'Western Civilizing Mission': Elwood S. Brown, the YMCA, and the Founding of the Far Eastern Championship Games 17
- Chapter 2 The Far Eastern Championship Games and the Western Asiatic Games in the 1920s and 1930s: 'Games of the Asians, by the Asians, for the Asians' 55
- Chapter 3 Building Nehru's Asia through Sport: The First Asian Games, Decolonization, International Peace, Modernization, and Development (4-11 March 1951) 102
- Chapter 4 A 'Free Country' Belonging to the 'free world': Philippine Independence, Dubious Democracy, and the Second Asian Games (1-9 May 1954) 125
- Chapter 5 'Give Us the Olympic Games': Peaceful Internationalism, 'Reborn' Japan, Olympic-Scale Perfection, and the Third Asian Games (24 May-1 June 1958) 147
- Chapter 6 Turning Indonesia into the Beacon of a Non-Aligned Asia: The Sukarno Administration, the Fourth Asian Games, and the Struggle against Imperialism and Neocolonialism (24 August-4 September 1962) 174
- Chapter 7 The King, the Military, and Thai Development: Hosting the Fifth and the Sixth Asian Games Consecutively (9-20 December 1966 and 1970) 202
- Chapter 8 Iran and the Indian Ocean Region Project: The Great Persian Empire, Oil Wealth, and the Seventh Asian Games (1-16 September 1974) 230.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-386) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789814722032
- 9814722030
- OCLC:
- 933369043
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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