Sport, revolution and the Beijing Olympics [[electronic resource] /] / Grant Jarvie, Dong-Jhy Hwang and Mel Brennan
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| Autore: |
Jarvie Grant <1955->
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| Titolo: |
Sport, revolution and the Beijing Olympics [[electronic resource] /] / Grant Jarvie, Dong-Jhy Hwang and Mel Brennan
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, NY, : Berg, 2008 |
| Edizione: | English ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 796.48 |
| Soggetto topico: | Olympics - Political aspects - China |
| Human rights - China | |
| Civil rights - China | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
HwangDong-Jhy
BrennanMel
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sport, revolution and the Beijing Olympics |
| ISBN: | 1-282-28610-2 |
| 9786612286100 | |
| 1-84788-373-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910455441203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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