Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China

by Andrew D. Morris and Joseph S. Alter

Book Overview

By 1907, staff at the Tianjin YMCA were rallying their Chinese charges with the cry: When will China be able to send a winning athlete to the Olympic contests? When will China be able to invite all the world to Peking for an International Olympic contest? Nearly a century later, on the eve of China's first-ever Olympic games, this innovative book shows for the first time how sporting culture and ideology played a crucial role in the making of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520240847
• ISBN13: 9780520240841
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"