Book

ABSTRACT

Linking sport to the emergence and growth of modern Asian society this collection of essays offers a lucid, original and highly readable history of politics, culture and sport in the world's most populous region.

chapter 1|8 pages

Imperial Origins: Christian Manliness, Moral Imperatives and Pre-Sri Lankan Playing Fields—Beginnings

chapter 1|20 pages

Imperial Origins: Christian Manliness, Moral Imperatives and Pre-Sri Lankan Playing Fields-Beginnings1

chapter 2|27 pages

Imperial Origins: Christian Manliness, Moral Imperatives and Pre-Sri Lankan Playing Fields-Consolidation

chapter 3|25 pages

Celestials in Touch: Sport and the Chinese in Colonial Singapore

chapter 4|25 pages

‘Sportsmanship’-English Inspiration and Japanese Response: F.W.Strange and Chiyosaburo Takeda

chapter 5|23 pages

‘Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds’: Sport and Society in Colonial Malaya

chapter 6|26 pages

Cricket in Colonial India: The Bombay Pentangular, 1892-1946

chapter 7|19 pages

Sport in China: Conflict between Tradition and Modernity, 1840s to 1930s

chapter 8|24 pages

Ideology, Politics, Power: Korean Sport-Transformation, 1945-92

chapter 9|27 pages

Shackling the Lion: Sport in Independent Singapore

chapter 10|15 pages

The Juggernaut of Globalization: Sport and Modernization in Iran

chapter 11|18 pages

Pancasila: Sport and the Building of Indonesia—Ambitions and Obstacles

chapter 12|19 pages

Communist China: Sport, Politics and Diplomacy1

chapter 13|18 pages

The Road to Modernization: Sport in Taiwan1

chapter 14|14 pages

Sport in Modern India: Policies, Practices and Problems

chapter 15|13 pages

From Iran to All of Asia: The Origin and Diffusion of Polo

Sport in Asian Society