Sport, revolution and the Beijing Olympics / Grant Jarvie, Dong-Jhy Hwang and Mel Brennan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jarvie, Grant, 1955-

Contributor:

Hwang, Dong-Jhy.

Brennan, Mel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olympics--Political aspects--China.

Olympics.

Human rights--China.

Human rights.

Civil rights--China.

Civil rights.

Olympic Games--(29th : 2008 : Beijing, China).

Olympic Games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

English ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berg, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes - most notoriously the Nazis in 1936. What has led to this perception and is it fair? Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics is a cultural history of sport in China and challenges many such ingrained Western assumptions. The authors unpick the relationship of sport to imperialism and revolution, and examine its significance in both China and Taiwan at governmental and everyday levels. In the proce

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1 Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics:An Introduction; CHAPTER 2 Sport, Physical Culture and Western Faith Invaders; CHAPTER 3 Sport, Physical Culture, Nationalism and the Chinese Republic; CHAPTER 4 Socialism, Health, Soviet Sport and the Cultural Revolution; CHAPTER 5 Reform, Opening Up and Making Sense of Modern Sport in China; CHAPTER 6 Capitalist Sport, the Beijing Olympics and Human Rights?; Conclusion: Sport, Social Change and the Public Intellectual; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612286100

9781282286108

1282286102

9781847883735

1847883737

OCLC:

406473347