Training the Body for China Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic

Name: Training the Body for China Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic
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ISBN: 9780226076478

ISBN-10: 0226076474

ISBN-13: 9780226076478

Edition: 1995 (Reprint)

Authors: Susan Brownell

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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…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 401
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Winning Glory for Beijing



Historical Overview: Sports, the Body, and the Nation



Public Culture: On Sports Clubs, Public Events, and Representation



Body Culture and Consumer Culture in China's 1987 National Games



Qing Dynasty Grand Sacrifice and Communist National Games: Rituals of the Chinese State?



Training the Body for China: Civilization, Discipline, and Social Order



"Those Who Work with Their Brains Rule; Those Who Work with Their Brawn Are Ruled"



Sex, the Body, and History in Chinese and Western Sports



Bodies, Boundaries, and the State



"Obscene" Bodies, the State, and Popular Movements: Bodybuilding and Old People's Disco



"Face" and "Fair Play": Sports and Morality in the Economic Reforms


Epilogue: Beijing's Bid for the 2000 Olympic Games


Select Glossary of Chinese Terms and Names


References


Index