Christianity And The Transformation Of Physical Education And Sport In China

Author : Huijie Zhang,Fan Hong,Fuhua Huang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351810661

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Christianity and the Transformation of Physical Education and Sport in China by Huijie Zhang,Fan Hong,Fuhua Huang Pdf

Despite the popularity of sport in contemporary China, the practice of physical education is not indigenous to its culture. Strenuous physical activity was traditionally linked to low class and status in the pre-modern Chinese society. The concept of modern PE was introduced to China by Western Christian missionaries and directors of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). It then grew from a tool for Christian evangelism to a strategic instrument in Chinese nation-building. This book examines the transformation of Chinese attitudes toward PE and sport, drawing on the concepts of cultural imperialism and nationalism to understand how an imported Western activity became a key aspect of modernization for the Chinese state. More specifically, it looks at the relationship between Christianity and the rise of Chinese nationalism between 1840 and 1937. Combining historical insight with original research, this book sheds new light on the evolution of PE and sport in modern China. It is fascinating reading for all those with an interest in sports history, Chinese culture and society, Christianity, physical education or the sociology of sport.

Author : Fan Hong,Liu Li
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000900828

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Routledge Handbook of Sport in China by Fan Hong,Liu Li Pdf

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history and development of sport from the ancient to the contemporary era in China. It addresses the gap between the vibrant academic scholarship within China and the limited understanding of Chinese sport outside of the country. It opens different perspectives on Chinese sport and addresses a wide range of issues central to the development of sport in the context of Chinese culture, politics, economy, and society. It explores a diverse set of topics including the history of Chinese traditional sport, the rise of modern sport and the Olympic movement, sport and nationhood, sport and politics and international relations, sport and physical education, sport and economy and commerce, sport and social stratification and diversity, and sport leisure and tourism. It offers critical insights into the multifaceted world of China, past and present—a contribution to our collective knowledge and understanding of Chinese sport and society—and is useful reading for students, researchers, and professionals with an interest in the field of China and Chinese sport. This Handbook has been contributed to by a team consisting of 88 leading Chinese and Asian experts and scholars with varied backgrounds of studying and working in European, North American, and Australian universities, as well as Western scholars with expertise on China and its sports system and practice. It is composed of ten parts classified by different subjects. It provides a wide lens through which to better contextualise the relationships between China and the world within the global sport community. The Routledge Handbook of Sport in China is a vital resource for students and scholars studying the history, politics, sociology, culture and policy of sport in China, as well as sport management, sport history, sport sociology, and sport policy and politics. It is also valuable reading for those who are working in international sport policy making and sport organisations.

Author : Hugh McLeod,Nils Martinius Justvik,Robert Hess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000764673

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Sport and Christianity by Hugh McLeod,Nils Martinius Justvik,Robert Hess Pdf

Sport and Christianity examines sport and Christianity from a variety of historical perspectives, with the main focus on the period from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. The book is not limited to a narrow definition of Christianity, but rather encompasses a wide range of denominations, related philosophies and viewpoints. The contributors are international, and the geographical range of their chapters is equally wide, extending, for example, from China to Argentina, and from Australia to Poland. Some chapters focus on a single sport such as gymnastics, soccer or Australian Rules football, while others look at modern sports more generally. Different methodological and theoretical approaches have been adopted, as contributors enter the debates on, for example, cultural imperialism, gender, changing Christian attitudes to leisure, or the intersection between religion, politics and sport. Demonstrating the many-sided significance of the relationship between Christianity and Sport, this book is ideal for scholars of Sport History and Christianity. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Fan Hong,Lu Zhouxiang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429590276

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The Routledge Handbook of Sport in Asia by Fan Hong,Lu Zhouxiang Pdf

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, development and contemporary significance of sport in Asia. It addresses a wide range of issues central to sport in the context of Asian culture, politics, economy and society. The book explores diverse topics, including the history of traditional Asian sport; the rise of modern sport in Asia; the Olympic Movement in Asia; mega sport events in Asia; sport governance and policy; gender, class and ethnicity in Asian sport, and Asia’s sporting heroes and heroines. With contributions from 74 leading international scholars, it offers a new perspective on understanding Asian sport and society, telling the story of how sport in this mega-region is coming together and reshaping the world in the process. It also provides readers with a wide lens through which to better contextualise the relationships between Asia and the world within the global sport community. The Routledge Handbook of Sport in Asia is a vital resource for students and scholars studying the history, politics, sociology, culture and policy of sport in Asia, as well as sport management, sport history, sport sociology, and sport policy and politics. It is also valuable reading for those working in international sport organisations.

Author : Robin Jones,James (Jim) Riordan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135814328

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Sport and Physical Education in China by Robin Jones,James (Jim) Riordan Pdf

Written by a number of expert scholars from around the world, including China itself, with the aim of extending knowledge and taking the cross-cultural study of PE and sport beyond the descriptive level, this book provides unique and up to date material. Subjects covered include: *ancient and modern history *structure, administration and finance *PE in schools and colleges *elite sport *sport science and medicine *gender issues. Anyone wishing to gain an insight into the PE and sporting experience of Chinese citizens both in historical and contemporary society will find this book essential reading. It is an indispensable resource for students taking comparative sport studies courses, sports historians, and academics with a general interest in the cross-cultural field.

Author : Andres Rodriguez
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774867580

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Frontier Fieldwork by Andres Rodriguez Pdf

The centre may hold, but borders can fray. Frontier Fieldwork explores the work of social scientists, agriculturists, photographers, and missionaries who took to the field in China’s southwest at a time when foreign political powers were contesting China’s claims over its frontiers. In the early twentieth century, when the threat of imperialism loomed large in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands, these fieldworkers undertook a nation-building exercise to unite a disparate, multi-ethnic population. Andres Rodriguez exposes the transformative power of the fieldworkers’ efforts, which placed China’s margins at the centre of its nation-making process and race to modernity.

Author : Fan Hong,Lu Zhouxiang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317587675

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Delivering Olympic and Elite Sport in a Cross Cultural Context by Fan Hong,Lu Zhouxiang Pdf

This book examines the impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympic Games and highlights the latest findings in the areas of sport policy, elite sports system, sport media, sport facility management and sport social development in the two host countries - China and Britain. It identifies the role of national and local governments, universities and educational institutions in the delivery of elite sport in different cultural and social settings. Aspects of the elite sports system are also analysed, such as elite athletes' training and education, athletes' rights and welfare both during and after an athlete’s career. Finally, the book considers the legacy of the Olympic Games in the areas of sport participation, public diplomacy, education and cultural communication in Europe and China. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Sean Brawley,Nick Guoth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317966326

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Australia's Asian Sporting Context, 1920s – 30s by Sean Brawley,Nick Guoth Pdf

This book examines Australia’s sporting relationships with the Asian region during the interwar period. Until now, Australia’s sporting relationships with the Asian region have been neglected by scholars of Australian and Asian sports history, and the broader field of Australia’s Asian context. Concentrating on the period of the 1920s and 1930s – when sporting relationships between Australia and a number of Asian nations emerged in a variety of sports – this book demonstrates the depth of these previously under-examined connections. The book challenges, and complicates, the broader historiography of Australia’s Asian context – a historiography that has been strongly influenced by the White Australia Policy and the Pacific War. Why, for example, did white Australia so warmly welcome visiting Japanese sportsmen at a time when the Pacific region appeared to be inexorably sliding into a war that was informed by racial antagonisms? This book examines sporting relations between Australia and seven Asian countries (China, Japan, India, Netherlands East Indies, Philippines, Malaya and Singapore) and a range of sports including rugby, football, swimming, hockey, boxing, cricket and tennis. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Author : Nick J. Watson,Andrew Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780415899222

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Sports and Christianity by Nick J. Watson,Andrew Parker Pdf

This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a "systematic review of literature," the contributors, who include many of the pioneers in the field, address a wide range of topics. These include biblical athletic metaphors, disability, evangelism, professionalism and celebrity, humility, the Vatican's perspective on sport and genetic enhancement technologies.

Author : Kevin Caffrey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317986072

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The Beijing Olympics: Promoting China by Kevin Caffrey Pdf

The Beijing 2008 Olympic ceremonies were spectacular performances and technological accomplishments by the People’s Republic of China. However, the audience in Beijing was only the most overt element of a global audience receiving the message of the Games. For this global audience, the Beijing performances were a harbinger of wider regional and international ambitions; a message of intent that pointed to a larger Chinese plan to a degree not seen since the Ming dynasty. New Chinese ambitions embrace both soft power and hard power. The actor in this political drama of international scope is the Chinese state and its political ambitions on the world stage. The Beijing Olympics can be seen as its opening act, and the audience as global. Rather than the kind of "morality" play that is typically used in China to educate the people in politics, this new production – a production on many levels – was one aimed at audiences all around the world, and one that was a calculated expression of realpolitik. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Howard G. Knuttgen,Qiwei Ma,Zhongyuan Wu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Physical education and training
ISBN : UCSC:32106009452027

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Sport in China by Howard G. Knuttgen,Qiwei Ma,Zhongyuan Wu Pdf

A comprehensive overview of all aspects of physical exercise and sport throughout Chinese history, including informal exercise, traditional and modern sports, physical education in the schools, and sports medicine. Most of the contributors are Chinese scholars, educators, coaches, or administrators

Author : David Torevell,Clive Palmer,Paul Rowan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1032123311

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Training the Body by David Torevell,Clive Palmer,Paul Rowan Pdf

'Giving the bst of yourself' in sports : the Catholic Church's attention to sports in past and present / Dries Vanysacker -- Holy marathon : 'running religion'? : religious interpretations of body vulnerability in the context of marathons / Kristin Graff-Kallevåg and Sturla J. Stålsett -- Gaining balance in religious training : what might sports and physical culture coaches learn from this? / David Torevell -- Corporeal enhancement and sport's spiritual dimension : a virtue ethics proposal / Tracy J. Trothen -- Training the body (stretching the mind) and moulding the spirit : sport, Christian asceticism and life as self-gift / Paul Rowan -- Towards an A to Z of faith in sport / Simon Lee -- Aesthetics and symbolism in artistic gymnastics : from martial discipline to ritual practices embodied in performance / Clive Palmer -- The metaphysical framework of transformational combat in Eastern religions and martial arts : implications for sports and physical culture training / David Torevell -- On the bodies of children : the troubling messages of American youth sports / Annie Blazer -- Jewish women and physical culture training at various Jewish Ys in early twentieth-century American culture / Linda J. Borish -- Promoting western sport and PE ideas in China : lessons learned and future directions / David Grecic -- Concluding remarks : making connections -- Questions for discussion and reflection.

Author : Harald Fischer-Tiné,Stefan Huebner,Ian Tyrrell
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824886462

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Spreading Protestant Modernity by Harald Fischer-Tiné,Stefan Huebner,Ian Tyrrell Pdf

A half century after its founding in London in 1844, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) became the first NGO to effectively push a modernization agenda around the globe. Soon followed by a sister organization, the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), founded in 1855, the Y movement defined its global mission in 1889. Although their agendas have been characterized as predominantly religious, both the YMCA and YWCA were also known for their new vision of a global civil society and became major agents in the worldwide dissemination of modern “Western” bodies of knowledge. The YMCA’s and YWCA’s “secular” social work was partly rooted in the Anglo-American notions of the “social gospel” that became popular during the 1890s. The Christian lay organizations’ vision of a “Protestant Modernity” increasingly globalized their “secular” social work that transformed notions of science, humanitarianism, sports, urban citizenship, agriculture, and gender relations. Spreading Protestant Modernity shows how the YMCA and YWCA became crucial in circulating various forms of knowledge and practices that were related to this vision, and how their work was co-opted by governments and rival NGOs eager to achieve similar ends. The studies assembled in this collection explore the influence of the YMCA’s and YWCA’s work on highly diverse societies in South, Southeast, and East Asia; North America; Africa; and Eastern Europe. Focusing on two of the most prominent representative groups within the Protestant youth, social service, and missionary societies (the so-called “Protestant International”), the book provides new insights into the evolution of global civil society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its multifarious, seemingly secular, legacies for today’s world. Spreading Protestant Modernity offers a compelling read for those interested in global history, the history of colonialism and decolonization, the history of Protestant internationalism, and the trajectories of global civil society. While each study is based on rigorous scholarship, the discussion and analyses are in accessible language that allows everyone from undergraduate students to advanced academics to appreciate the Y movement’s role in social transformations across the world.

Author : Brad Schultz,Mary L. Sheffer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498514422

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Sport and Religion in the Twenty-First Century by Brad Schultz,Mary L. Sheffer Pdf

This book examines the relationship between sport and religion with regard to twenty-first century topics such as race, fandom, education, and culture. The contributors provide new insights into the people, movements, and events that define the complex relationship between sport and religion around the world. A wonderful addition to any academic course on religion, sports, ethics, or culture as a whole.

Author : Frank H. Fu,M. L. Ng,Michael Speak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Physical education and training
ISBN : 9624080011

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Comparative Physical Education and Sport by Frank H. Fu,M. L. Ng,Michael Speak Pdf