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1. Sport and Nationalism in China

   By Zhouxiang Lu, Fan Hong

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This is the first book to comprehensively map the relationships between sport, nationalism and nation building in China. By exploring the last 150 years of Chinese history, it offers unparalleled depth and breadth of coverage and provides a clear grasp of Chinese sports nationalism from both macro...

   To Be Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China

   Communists and Champions

   By Fan Hong, Lu Zhouxiang

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communist and Champions is the first book in English which examines in chronological order key issues in sport in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 2012 in the context of Chinese history, politics and society. It explores the complexity...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Post-Beijing 2008: Geopolitics, Sport and the Pacific Rim

   Edited by J. A. Mangan, Fan Hong

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   In 2008, as few in the world are unaware, China was host to the world via the Beijing Olympics. The world watched the metamorphosis of Beijing from insecure capital to confident metropolis but, aware of it or not, the world was also watching the symbolic assertion, via the Games, of a rising...

   Published May 18th 2011 by Routledge
4. Sport, Nationalism and Orientalism

   The Asian Games

   Edited by Fan Hong

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   The first book to focus solely on the Asian Games, this is an analysis of the Oriental rival to the Olympics in terms of its geopolitical, economic, sociological, historical, racial and aesthetic context, looking at its birth, growth and maturation from 1913 up until 2006. Written by a team of...

   Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge
5. Modern Sport – The Global Obsession

   Edited by Boria Majumdar, Fan Hong

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Sport has become more than a simple physical expression or game – it now pervades all societies at all levels and has become bound up in nationalism, entertainment, patriotism and culture. Now a global obsession, sport has infiltrated into all areas of modern life and despite noble ideals that...

   Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge
6. Doping in Sport

   Global Ethical Issues

   Edited by Angela J. Schneider, Fan Hong

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   This book considers ethical arguments about performance enhancing drugs in sport in a global context. It examines:* The forces that are bringing about the debate of ethical issues in performance enhancing drugs in sport* The sources of ethical debates in different continents and countries * The...

   Published June 5th 2007 by Routledge
7. Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation

   Kicking off a New Era

   By Fan Hong, J.A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   This is the first in-depth global study of women's football across the world. This collection considers women's football, in fifteen countries worldwide, in a global context, and analyzes its progress, challenges and problems it has faced. It shows how women's football has made a...

   Published July 31st 2003 by Routledge
8. Sport in Asian Society

   Past and present

   Edited by Fan Hong, J.A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   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....

   Published September 29th 2002 by Routledge
9. Freeing the Female Body

   Inspirational Icons

   Edited by Fan Hong

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   This collection records the bravery of these forgotten inspirational figures whose determination challenged and overcame convention, custom and prejudice to free women from the ranks of the sexualized, controlled and oppressed....

   Published December 29th 2000 by Routledge
10. Footbinding, Feminism and Freedom

    The Liberation of Women's Bodies in Modern China

    By Fan Hong

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Through the medium of women's bodies, Fan Hong explores the significance of religious beliefs, cultural codes and political dogmas for gender relations, gender concepts and the human body in an Asian setting....

    Published May 31st 1997 by Routledge