Training the body for China : sports in the moral order of the People's Republic / Susan Brownell.
1995
GV651 .B76 1995 (Mapit)
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Title
Training the body for China : sports in the moral order of the People's Republic / Susan Brownell.
Author
Brownell, Susan.
ISBN
0226076466 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226076461 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226076474 (paper ; alk. paper)
9780226076478 (paper ; alk. paper)
9780226076461 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226076474 (paper ; alk. paper)
9780226076478 (paper ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1995.
Language
English
Description
xi, 393 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
GV651 .B76 1995
Alternate Call Number
76.10
SPO 510f
SPO 551f
SPO 599f
SPO 510f
SPO 551f
SPO 599f
Dewey Decimal Classification
796/.0951/09045
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-374) and index.
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Table of Contents
Part one. Introduction. Winning glory for Beijing
Historical overview
Part two. The body and the nation. Public culture
Body culture and consumer culture in China's 1987 National Games
Qing Dynasty grand sacrifice and Communist National Games
Part three. Class culture and body culture. Training the body for China
"Those who work with their brains rule; those who work with their brawn are ruled"
Part four. Sex, gender, and the body. Sex, the body, and history in Chinese and Western sports
Bodies, boundaries, and the State
Part five. Body culture in social change. "Obscene" bodies, the State, and popular movements
"Face" and "Fair play"
Epilogue: Beijing's bid for the 2000 Olympic Games.
Historical overview
Part two. The body and the nation. Public culture
Body culture and consumer culture in China's 1987 National Games
Qing Dynasty grand sacrifice and Communist National Games
Part three. Class culture and body culture. Training the body for China
"Those who work with their brains rule; those who work with their brawn are ruled"
Part four. Sex, gender, and the body. Sex, the body, and history in Chinese and Western sports
Bodies, boundaries, and the State
Part five. Body culture in social change. "Obscene" bodies, the State, and popular movements
"Face" and "Fair play"
Epilogue: Beijing's bid for the 2000 Olympic Games.