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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 727–728.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Robert Culp Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China . By Andrew D. Morris . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2004 . xx , 368 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 480–482.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Jin-kyung Park Transnational Sport: Gender, Media, and Global Korea . By Rachael Miyung Joo . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2012 . 336 pp. $42.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 Few would disagree...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 569–571.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Stanley Thangaraj Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India . By Ronojoy Sen . New York : Columbia University Press , 2015 . 400 pp. ISBN: 9780231164900 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018 2018 Ronojoy Sen provides...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 266–268.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Justin Thomas McDaniel Embodied Nation: Sports, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos . By Simon Creak . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2015 . xiv, 327 pp. ISBN 9780824838898 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016 2016 The country...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 313–325.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Wolfram Manzenreiter Abstract The link between global sports brands and the violation of workers' rights in Asia has been a mainstream issue for many years. A ceaseless flow of news reports on the infringement of workers' rights in Asia suggests that neocolonialist dependencies and the ruthless...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 618–620.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Gao Yunxiang Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895–2008 . By Xu Guoqi . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2008 . xi , 377 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 With the spectacle of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 432–433.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Peter J. Carroll Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic . By Susan Brownell . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1995 . xi, 393 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 432...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 723–724.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Ji-Hyun Ahn Global Sports Fandom in South Korea: American Major League Baseball and Its Fans in the Online Community . By Younghan Cho . Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020 . xii, 238 pp. ISBN: 9789811531958 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 From Chan Ho Park...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1059–1060.
Published: 01 November 2018
...John J. Harney Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913–1974 . By Stefan Huebner . Singapore : NUS Press , 2016 . xiv, 397 pp. ISBN: 9789814722032 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018 2018 Stefan Huebner's Pan-Asian Sports...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 687–690.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Dilip Menon Abstract South Africans see themselves as a nation that loves sport, but with the World Cup in football imminent, there appears to be a sense of exhaustion both in the media and among the population. One important reason is that football does not dominate the public imagination of sport...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 853–877.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... The government newspaper, The New Light of Myanmar , boasted: “With the honor of hosting the Games that returned to the country after a 44-year long wait, Myanmar successfully hosted the biggest regional sporting event.” Thailand's Nation concurred: “The country failed to overhaul Thailand as overall winners...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 125–143.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Muhammad A. Kavesh Abstract Despite the invention and sophistication of drones and unarmed aerial vehicles, satellites, and more recently, cyber espionage, “spy pigeons” remain a serious threat at the India-Pakistan border. The entanglement between flying pigeons for “sport” and capturing pigeons...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 205–223.
Published: 01 February 2018
... on etiquette, the communist party-state discourse on militarization and strong womanhood, the communist sport tradition of body training, and the latest initiatives on volunteering. The result is the making of gendered national subjects, marking new values of class, femininity, and nationalism. This article...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1136–1138.
Published: 01 November 2016
...–1912) of rapid modernization and nation-building through the present day, Japanese society has displayed an impressive interest in the sport of distance running. As Thomas Havens charts in this book, Japanese distance running as both consumable spectacle and participatory event reflects a number...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 256–257.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Andrew D. Morris However, I also have several regrets about this volume. The most obvious regards the structure and organization of the book, which is more a survey of the modern sporting project in twentieth-century China than it is always about “Beijing's games.” Because few of the chapters...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 986–987.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Susan Brownell After the retrocession in 1949, the fact that baseball was the quintessential American sport allowed the GMD to ignore the sport's colonial roots while utilizing it in international diplomacy and US–Republic of China relations. Thus, baseball connected Taiwanese people with two...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 562–563.
Published: 01 May 2003
... and to demonstrate the utility of soccer in understanding questions of geopolitics, business, the media, and the cultural production of modern ideology. The editors, in an introductory chapter, promise attention to center-periphery relations; power relations among nation-states, sport associations and business...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1045–1046.
Published: 01 November 2020
... that theirs is the second most popular sport in the world. This claim is based on the massive popularity of cricket in the hugely populous region of South Asia. India alone accounts for considerably more cricket fans than the rest of the world put together, and over the past quarter century, it has come...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 519–520.
Published: 01 May 1999
... the Pax Tokugawa. Experts founded schools, charged their students, and gave out certificates by the koku. By the late Tokugawa, the sport of fencing had evolved, taught both in urban centers and domain schools. Hurst then repeats the same chronology for archery, starting with bows and arrows in myth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1029–1065.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., 1909, in San Francisco), on February 15, 1911, and September 2, 1915, it was sung on the occasion of the sports competitions at the Young Korean Military School (1909–14) in Nebraska (before March 1910 situated in Kearney, then moved to Hastings)—a training institution for “young Korean patriots...
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