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Marrow of the Nation

A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China

Andrew D Morris author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:7th Sep '04

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By 1907, staff at the Tianjin YMCA were rallying their Chinese charges with the cry: When will China be able to send a winning athlete to the Olympic contests? When will China be able to invite all the world to Peking for an International Olympic contest? Nearly a century later, on the eve of China's first-ever Olympic games, this innovative book shows for the first time how sporting culture and ideology played a crucial role in the making of the modern nation-state in Republican China. A landmark work on the history of sport in China, Marrow of the Nation tells the dramatic story of how Olympic-style competitions and ball games, as well as militarized forms of training associated with the West and Japan, were adapted to become an integral part of the modern Chinese experience.

"Marrow of the Nation is the first book about how new ideas of sport and the body shaped the Chinese nation in its formative years. It is a much needed contribution toward understanding the origins of China's long quest to host the Olympic games." - Susan Brownell, author of Training the Body for China"

ISBN: 9780520240841

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm

Weight: 771g

400 pages