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Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China Book

Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China
Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China, By 1907, staff at the Tianjin YMCA were rallying their Chinese charges with the cry: <i>When will China be able to send a winning athlete to the Olympic contests? When will China be able to invite all the world to Peking for an
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Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China, By 1907, staff at the Tianjin YMCA were rallying their Chinese charges with the cry: When will China be able to send a winning athlete to the Olympic contests? When will China be able to invite all the world to Peking for an International Olympic , Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China
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  • Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China
  • Written by author Andrew D. Morris
  • Published by University of California Press, September 2004
  • By 1907, staff at the Tianjin YMCA were rallying their Chinese charges with the cry: When will China be able to send a winning athlete to the Olympic contests? When will China be able to invite all the world to Peking for an International Olympic
  • "This is the first book about how new ideas of sport and the body shaped the Chinese nation in its early formative years. It is a much-needed contribution toward understanding the origins of China's long quest to host the Olympic Games. This engaging book
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Foreword
1Introduction1
2"Now the fun of exercise can be realized" : from calisthenics and gymnastics ticao to sports tiyu in the 1910s17
3"Mind, muscle, and money" : a physical culture for the 1920s47
4Nationalism and power in the physical culture of the 1920s77
5"We can also be the controllers and oppressors" : social bodies and national physiques100
6Elite competitive sport in the 1930s141
7From martial arts to national skills : the construction of a modern indigenous physical culture, 1912-37185
8Tiyu through wartime and "liberation"230


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