1st Edition

Australia's Asian Sporting Context, 1920s – 30s

Edited By Sean Brawley, Nick Guoth Copyright 2013
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines Australia’s sporting relationships with the Asian region during the interwar period. Until now, Australia’s sporting relationships with the Asian region have been neglected by scholars of Australian and Asian sports history, and the broader field of Australia’s Asian context. Concentrating on the period of the 1920s and 1930s – when sporting relationships between Australia and... Read more

Introduction: Australia’s Asian Sporting Context - Sean Brawley (University of New South Wales) and Nick Guoth (Australian National University, Australia)

1: Japan - Gary Osmand (University of Queensland, Australia)

2: China - Nick Guoth (Australian National University, Australia)

3: Netherlands East Indies - Sean Brawley (University of New South Wales, Australia)

4: India - Anthony Hughes (University of New South Wales, Australia)

5: Singapore and Malaya - Nick Aplin (Nanyang Technical University, Singapore)

6: Philippines - Rebecca Sheehan (University of Southern California, USA)

Conclusion - David Walker (Deakin University, Australia)

Biography

Sean Brawley is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean (Education) at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of eight books, including The Bondi Lifesaver: History of an Australian Icon; Fighting Words: Competing Voices of the Pacific War; and, most recently, Hollywood’s South Seas and the Pacific War: Searching for Dorothy Lamour.

Nick Guoth is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Sociology, College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra.