Name: Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic (en Inglés)
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Author: Susan Brownell
ISBN: 9780226076478

portada Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Chicago Press

Autor

Susan Brownell

Año

1995

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

406

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

0226076474

ISBN13

9780226076478

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Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic (en Inglés)

Susan Brownell (Autor) · University Of Chicago Press · Tapa Blanda

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Competing in the 1986 National College Games of the People's Republic of China, Susan Brownell earned both a gold medal in the heptathlon and fame throughout China as "the American girl who won glory for Beijing University." Now an anthropologist, Brownell draws on her direct experience of Chinese athletics in this fascinating look at the culture of sports and the body in China. Training the Body for China is the first book on Chinese sports based on extended fieldwork by a Westerner. Brownell 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 new 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 for the first time and drawing on performance theory and histories of the body, Brownell uses the culture of the body as a focal point to explore the tensions between local and global organizations, the traditional and the modern, men and women. Her intimate knowledge of Chinese social and cultural life and her wide range of historic examples make Training the Body for China a unique illustration of how gender, the body, and the nation are interlinked in Chinese culture.