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Sporting Gender: Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China’s National Crisis, 1931-45
Yunxiang Gao
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Hardback. Explores the rise of female athletes in China in the early twentieth century. It shows how female athletes coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame, arguing that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JFSJ1; WSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China during its national crisis of 1931-45 brought on by the Japanese invasion. By re-mapping lives and careers of these athletes, administrators, and film actors within a wartime context, Gao shows how they coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame. Addressing themes of state control, media influence, fashion, and changing gender roles, she argues that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China at a time when women’s emancipation and ... Read more
Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China during its national crisis of 1931-45 brought on by the Japanese invasion. By re-mapping lives and careers of these athletes, administrators, and film actors within a wartime context, Gao shows how they coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame. Addressing themes of state control, media influence, fashion, and changing gender roles, she argues that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China at a time when women’s emancipation and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Chinese Studies
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774824811
SKU
V9780774824811
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About Yunxiang Gao
Yunxiang Gao is an associate professor of East Asian history at Ryerson University.
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