| Edition |
English ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (165 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-161) and index. |
| Contents |
Sport, Physical Culture, Revolution and the Beijing Olympic Games: An Introduction -- Sport, Physical Culture and Western Faith Invaders -- Sport, Physical Culture, Nationalism and the Chinese Republic -- Socialism, Health, Soviet Sport and the Cultural Revolution -- Reform, Opening Up and Making Sense of Modern Sport in China -- Capitalist Sport, The Beijing Olympics and Human Rights? -- Conclusion: Sport, Social Change and the Public Intellectual. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Olympic Games (29th : 2008 : Beijing, China)
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Olympic Games. (OCoLC)fst01408249
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Olympics -- Political aspects -- China.
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Human rights -- China.
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Civil rights -- China.
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Olympics.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Olympics.
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Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00862627
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Human rights. (OCoLC)fst00963285
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Olympics -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01045600
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China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
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| Added Author |
Hwang, Dong-Jhy.
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Brennan, Mel.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jarvie, Grant, 1955- Sport, revolution and the Beijing Olympics. English ed. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2008 9781845201005 1845201000 (DLC) 2008004822 (OCoLC)192048058 |
| ISBN |
9781847883735 (electronic bk.) |
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1847883737 (electronic bk.) |
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