The Routledge Handbook of Sport in Asia

Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: the Asian century and Asian sport
Part I Asia’s traditional sport
	1 In authentic relations: traditional Asian martial arts, East and West
	2 Chinese philosophy and Asian martial arts
	3 A brief history of Chinese martial arts
	4 The development and global transmission of Wing Chun
	5 The transmission modes of taijiquan: traditional martial art, competitive sport and the political reappropriation of culture in modern China
	6 The long-term development of Japanese martial arts
	7 Kendō: an indigenous culture embodying national narratives in Japan
	8 Judo
	9 In search of a tradition for taekwondo
	10 Chinlone: national sport of Myanmar
Part II The rise of modern sport and the Olympic Movement in Asia
	11 The foundation and early years of the Olympic Council of Asia: a controversial body making controversial politics
	12 China and the Olympic Games
	13 The rise of modern sport and the Olympic Movement in India
	14 The rise of modern sport and the Olympic Movement in Japan
	15 Beyond the Peninsula: sport and the Olympic Games in colonial Korea (1910–1945)
	16 The rise of modern sport and the Olympic Movement in Korea
	17 The introduction and institutionalisation of Western sport in colonial and postcolonial Malaya, 1786–1965
	18 Sport, colonisation and modernity in the Philippines
	19 The rise of modern sport in colonial Singapore: the Singapore Cricket Club leads the way
Part III Sport policy and practice: public and private provision
	20 International sport events and the two Koreas: politics, policies and practice
	21 Sport diplomacy at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang: the relations between North and South Korea
	22 Commercialisation of sport in China
	23 The reform of China’s elite sport system: case studies on football and table tennis
	24 The development of sport policy and practice in Taiwan
	25 Politics and policy of forging post-handover Hong Kong as sporting mega-event centre
	26 An overview of sport in modern India
	27 Indonesia’s sport policy and development in the Old Order Era (1945–1967) and New Order Era (1967–1998)
Part IV Social stratification and diversity in Asian sport
	28 Safeguarding children in sport in Asia
	29 Sport and ethnicity
	30 South Korea: women and sport in a persistent patriarchy
	31 Disability sport in Malaysia: challenges and opportunities
	32 Sport and gender in contemporary China
	33 The changing society, state policies and sport for young children in twenty-first-century China
	34 The development of elite disability sport in China
	35 Sport and social class in Japan: past and present
	36 Sport and gender in Japan
	37 Sport and ethnicity in Indonesia: developing national character through traditional games
	38 Yoga for oppositional defiant disorder and adolescent relationship issues
Part V Sport in West Asia and the Middle East
	39 Sport and diplomacy in the Middle East
	40 Sport and international relations in the Arab world
	41 Arab countries’ strategies to bid and to host major sport events
	42 The emergence and development of the Islamic Solidarity Games
	43 Soccer: moulding the Middle East and North Africa
	44 Playing ball: crowd and ‘contra-crowd’ in the politics of Egyptian and Tunisian football
Part VI Asian mega sporting events
	45 The Asian Games, Asian sport and Asian politics
	46 The Far Eastern Championship Games
	47 The games of the new emerging forces
	48 Borrowed spectacle: Olympic rhetoric in political battles
	49 The Southeast Asian Games
	50 The Asian Indoor Games
	51 The political dimension of the AFC Asian Cup
	52 The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
	53 The 1988 Seoul Olympic Games and South Korea’s mega-events
	54 Wushu competitions in Asia
Part VII Asia’s sport heroes and heroines
	55 Liu Changchun: China’s first Olympic athlete
	56 Rudy Hartono: an Indonesian badminton legend
	57 Dipa Karmakar: rising star of India
	58 Bruce Lee: his Jeet Kune Do, his movies and his legacy
	59 Yao Ming: the basketball giant
	60 Eric Liddell: the flying Scotsman
	61 Seri Pak: Korea’s Golf Empress
	62 Dhyan Chand Singh: a legend in hockey
	63 He Zhenliang: China’s Mr Olympics
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