Training The Body For China

Author : Susan Brownell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780226076478

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Training the Body for China by Susan Brownell Pdf

Competing in the 1986 National College Games of the People's Republic of China, Susan Brownell earned both a gold medal in the heptathlon and fame throughout China as "the American girl who won glory for Beijing University." Now an anthropologist, Brownell draws on her direct experience of Chinese athletics in this fascinating look at the culture of sports and the body in China. Training the Body for China is the first book on Chinese sports based on extended fieldwork by a Westerner. Brownell introduces the notion of "body culture" to analyze Olympic sports as one element in a whole set of Chinese body practices: the "old people's disco dancing" craze, the new popularity of bodybuilding (following reluctant official acceptance of the bikini), mass calisthenics, martial arts, military discipline, and more. Translating official and dissident materials into English for the first time and drawing on performance theory and histories of the body, Brownell uses the culture of the body as a focal point to explore the tensions between local and global organizations, the traditional and the modern, men and women. Her intimate knowledge of Chinese social and cultural life and her wide range of historic examples make Training the Body for China a unique illustration of how gender, the body, and the nation are interlinked in Chinese culture.

Author : Susan Brownell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226076466

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Training the Body for China by Susan Brownell Pdf

Competing in the 1986 National College Games of the People's Republic of China, Susan Brownell earned both a gold medal in the heptathlon and fame throughout China as "the American girl who won glory for Beijing University." Now an anthropologist, Brownell draws on her direct experience of Chinese athletics in this fascinating look at the culture of sports and the body in China. Training the Body for China is the first book on Chinese sports based on extended fieldwork by a Westerner. Brownell introduces the notion of "body culture" to analyze Olympic sports as one element in a whole set of Chinese body practices: the "old people's disco dancing" craze, the new popularity of bodybuilding (following reluctant official acceptance of the bikini), mass calisthenics, martial arts, military discipline, and more. Translating official and dissident materials into English for the first time and drawing on performance theory and histories of the body, Brownell uses the culture of the body as a focal point to explore the tensions between local and global organizations, the traditional and the modern, men and women. Her intimate knowledge of Chinese social and cultural life and her wide range of historic examples make Training the Body for China a unique illustration of how gender, the body, and the nation are interlinked in Chinese culture.

Author : Renée Krusche
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793654564

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The Healthy Socialist Life in Maoist China, 1949–1980 by Renée Krusche Pdf

This book observes the growing importance of individual well-being for collective health in socialist China and the limitations this brought on the authorities. Engaging with contemporary popular media discourse—including handbooks and magazine articles on health and health practices—to demonstrate how biomedical knowledge was ingrained in the readership, this book uncovers the detailed path to health propagated by state media for the Chinese population. This authority-sanctioned discussion opened up a space for talking about a body entwined with production and the personal experience of daily life. Nutrition, exercise, and rest were the main fields in which the party– state encouraged and accommodated healthy behavior to foster a strong population in the wake of the building of the "New China." These three case studies highlight the network of social groups, institutions, and experts involved in the production and implementation of health knowledge as well as the continuity of health discourse itself. Through a thorough exploration of these three pillars of health and the emerging debate on civilization diseases, this book unearths the often-ignored limits of state control over human bodies.

Author : Frank N. Pieke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351761673

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People's Republic of China, Volumes I and II by Frank N. Pieke Pdf

This title was first published in 2002. This two volume set collects in a conveniently accessible form the most influential articles by leading authorities in the study of China. It provides an international reference work, combined with an authoritative introduction by the editor.

Author : Grant Jarvie,Dong-Jhy Hwang,Mel Brennan
Publisher : Berg
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781847883735

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Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics by Grant Jarvie,Dong-Jhy Hwang,Mel Brennan Pdf

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 process, they successfully debunk harmful myths, such as the prevalence of drugs in Chinese sport among women athletes, and present a balanced view that is a much-needed corrective to popular understanding.

Author : Bryan S. Turner,Yangwen Zheng
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1845455509

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The Body in Asia by Bryan S. Turner,Yangwen Zheng Pdf

The past few decades have seen growing interest in the study of the body. However, the increasing number of exciting and influential publications has primarily, if not exclusively, focused on the body in Western cultures. The various works produced by Asian scholars remain largely unknown to Western academic debates even though Asia is home to a host of rich body cultures and religions. The peoples of Asia have experienced colonization, decolonization, and now globalization, all of which make the 'body in Asia' a rewarding field of research. This unique volume brings together a number of scholars who work on East, Southeast and South Asia and presents original and cutting edge research on the body in various Asian cultures.

Author : Yanhua Zhang
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791480595

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Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine by Yanhua Zhang Pdf

Chinese medicine approaches emotions and emotional disorders differently than the Western biomedical model. Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine offers an ethnographic account of emotion-related disorders as they are conceived, talked about, experienced, and treated in clinics of Chinese medicine in contemporary China. While Chinese medicine (zhongyi) has been predominantly categorized as herbal therapy that treats physical disorders, it is also well known that Chinese patients routinely go to zhongyi clinics for treatment of illness that might be diagnosed as psychological or emotional in the West. Through participant observation, interviews, case studies, and zhongyi publications, both classic and modern, the author explores the Chinese notion of "body-person," unravels cultural constructions of emotion, and examines the way Chinese medicine manipulates body-mind connections.

Author : Gulbahar Haitiwaji,Rozenn Morgat
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644213889

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How I Survived a Chinese "Reeducation" Camp by Gulbahar Haitiwaji,Rozenn Morgat Pdf

The first memoir about the "reeducation" camps by a Uyghur woman, describing the insidious nature of oppression, the dehumanizing effects of torture and brainwashing, and the human drive to survive—and resist—under even the most horrific circumstances. This new paperback edition features a new introduction by the author. “I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality.” — Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match For three years Gulbahar Haitiwaji was held in Chinese detention centers and “reeducation” camps, enduring interrogations, torture, hunger, police violence, brainwashing, forced sterilization, freezing cold, rats, and nights under the blinding fluorescent lights of her prison cell. Her only crime? Being a Uyghur. China’s brutal repression of Uyghurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group, has been denounced as genocide and reported widely in media around the world. In 2019, the New York Times published the “Xinjiang Papers,” leaked documents exposing the forced detention of more than one million Uyghurs in Chinese “reeducation” camps. The Chinese government denies that these camps are concentration camps, seeking to legitimize their existence in the name of the “total fight against Islamic terrorism, infiltration and separatism” and calling them “schools.” But none of this is true. Gulbahar only escaped thanks to the relentless efforts of her daughter, with the help of the French diplomatic corps. Others have not been so fortunate. In How I Survived a Chinese “Reeducation” Camp, Gulbahar tells her story, describing the insidious nature of oppression, the dehumanizing effects of torture and brainwashing, and the human drive to survive—and resist—under even the most horrific circumstances. This new paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author.

Author : Immanuel Nama
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783668577671

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The Contemporary Fitness Lifestyle Concept in China. A Cultural Transfer from the United States? by Immanuel Nama Pdf

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Sociology - Culture, Technology, Nations, grade: 1,3, University of Passau (Professur für Amerikanistik / Cultural and Media Studies), language: English, abstract: This paper is focused on the cultural transfer of contemporary American fitness culture into the Chinese environment. In what respect does the current state of the contemporary Chinese fitness culture reflect this process? Furthermore, cultural implications will be analyzed as well as the question about the shape of the cultural transfer is going to be answered: What part of the transfer is “literally” adopted from the United States, what parts of the culture are reinterpreted, what is distinctly Chinese? To achieve this rather ambitious goal in this fairly limited scope, it is going to be explored what makes the fitness lifestyle as culture unambiguously American by looking at its historical roots and cultural features, before a snapshot of the adaption on Chinese soil including the determining cultural idiosyncrasies will be analyzed in depth. As the thesis is working with the framework of cultural transfer as well as it is exploring a concept of lifestyle, these two concepts will be initially defined to clarify what is going to be discussed subsequently.

Author : Jiawen Miao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Exercise
ISBN : 1567184952

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Simple Fitness Exercises by Jiawen Miao Pdf

Learn how to reach the highest level of physical fitness you can achieve, in just five minutes a day with Simple Fitness Exercises by Jiawen Miao. Simple Fitness Exercises is a set of movements easier to learn than Tai Chi and Qigong, and just as effective for improving your health as aerobics and yoga. The author, Jiawen Miao, has practiced Kung Fu, Qigong, and Chinese fitness exercises since he was a teenager. He studied at the famous Ermei School of Martial Arts in China for four years and has taught Tai Chi Chuan and fitness exercises throughout the United States. In Simple Fitness Exercises he presents techniques where you don't need a teacher, great physical strength, or even much flexibility. All of the exercise combinations emphasize the importance of circulating chi, the life-force linked to the breath that plays a vital role in Tai Chi and in East Asian martial arts. A series of photographs illustrates each set of exercises. The techniques consist of dynamic standing and even sitting poses that use slow transitional movements from one posture to another. ·Learn exercises that are easy to remember and simple to perform, yet carry significant health benefits ·Rehabilitate from injuries, rejuvenate the body, gain flexibility, and restore movement ·Activate the power of chi without extensive training or a high level of physical fitness ·Reach a state of harmony between the spiritual mind and physical body ·Energize, straighten your posture, stimulate the internal organs, strengthen muscles, and improve circulation Whether you're nine or ninety, these simple exercises are the perfect workout for your body and mind. Get Simple Fitness Exercises today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Kung fu
ISBN : UVA:X000864876

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Chinese Kung-fu Training Methods by Anonim Pdf

Author : Liping Bu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781317541356

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Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865–2015 by Liping Bu Pdf

This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China’s public health system, showing how advances in public health have been an integral part of China’s rise. It outlines the phenomenal improvements in public health, for example the increase in life expectancy from 38 in 1949 to 73 in 2010; relates developments in public health to prevailing political ideologies; and discusses how the drivers of health improvements were, unlike in the West, modern medical professionals and intellectuals who understood that, whatever the prevailing ideology, China needs to be a strong country. The book explores how public health concepts, policies, programmes, institutions and practices changed and developed through social and political upheavals, war, and famine, and argues that this perspective of China’s development is refreshingly different from China’s development viewed purely in political terms.

Author : Peter M. Wayne, PhD
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780834828483

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The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi by Peter M. Wayne, PhD Pdf

A longtime teacher and Harvard researcher presents the latest science on the benefits of T’ai Chi as well as a practical daily program for practitioners of all ages Conventional medical science on the Chinese art of T’ai Chi now shows what T’ai Chi masters have known for centuries: regular practice leads to more vigor and flexibility, better balance and mobility, and a sense of well-being. Cutting-edge research from Harvard Medical School also supports the long-standing claims that T’ai Chi also has a beneficial impact on the health of the heart, bones, nerves and muscles, immune system, and the mind. This research provides fascinating insight into the underlying physiological mechanisms that explain how T’ai Chi actually works. Dr. Peter M. Wayne, a longtime T’ai Chi teacher and a researcher at Harvard Medical School, developed and tested protocols similar to the simplified program he includes in this book, which is suited to people of all ages, and can be done in just a few minutes a day. This book includes: • The basic program, illustrated by more than 50 photographs • Practical tips for integrating T’ai Chi into everyday activities • An introduction to the traditional principles of T’ai Chi • Up-to-date summaries of the research on the health benefits of T’ai Chi • How T’ai Chi can enhance work productivity, creativity, and sports performance • And much more

Author : Xinyan Peng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000577068

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Corporate Women in Contemporary China by Xinyan Peng Pdf

Based on extensive, multi-sited ethnographic research, this book focuses on the culture of work in today’s urban China and on how it has permeated beyond the workplace to shape bodily training, family life, and kinship and social relationships among white-collar women in their twenties and thirties. Facing challenges to cope with the increasingly intensified dual burden of work and family, whitecollar women are not turning their backs on their jobs but are turning their bodies and homes into work. In an era when the state and society heighten pressure on individual young women’s productivity and reproductivity at the same time, the book examines how white-collar women seek to protect their right to work, embody a work ethic, and make their reproductive life a productive domain. Integrating studies of labor, the body, gender, and kinship, this book shows how the ethics and strictly defined discipline of hard work and overtime work are transposed from the office cubicle to the gym and home. It thereby demonstrates how the emergence, embodiment, and extension of a work culture perpetuate the hegemony of the work ethic, and how they have exerted a profound impact on women’s bodies, selves, and lives.

Author : Fan Hong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781136335044

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Freeing the Female Body by Fan Hong Pdf

This collection records the bravery of these forgotten inspirational figures whose determination challenged and overcame convention, custom and prejudice to free women from the ranks of the sexualized, controlled and oppressed.