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Training the Body for China
Susan Brownell
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Description for Training the Body for China
Paperback. This text draws on direct experience of Chinese athletics to provide an insight into the culture of sports and the body in China. It uses the culture of the body as a focal point to explore how gender, the body and the nation are interlinked in Chinese culture. Num Pages: 406 pages, 23 halftones, 1 line drawing, 8 tables, glossary. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JHM; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 276 x 29. Weight in Grams: 646.
Anthropologist Susan Brownell, heptathlon gold medallist in the 1986 National College Games of the People's Republic of China, draws on her direct experience of Chinese athletics to provide an insight into the culture of sports and the body in China. The book 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 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 and drawing on performance theory ... Read more
Anthropologist Susan Brownell, heptathlon gold medallist in the 1986 National College Games of the People's Republic of China, draws on her direct experience of Chinese athletics to provide an insight into the culture of sports and the body in China. The book 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 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 and drawing on performance theory ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
Number of Pages
401
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226076478
SKU
V9780226076478
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