Author: Susan Brownell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226076478
Size: 30.43 MB
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Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 393
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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.

Author: Li Zhang
Publisher:
ISBN: 0520344189
Size: 63.65 MB
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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The breathless pace of China's economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people's inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding "inner revolution" is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times. Li Zhang shows that anxiety--broadly construed in both medical and social terms--has become a powerful indicator for the general pulse of contemporary Chinese society. It is in this particular context that Zhang traces how a new psychotherapeutic culture takes root, thrives, and transforms itself across a wide range of personal, social, and political domains.

Author: Matthew Llewellyn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317502469
Size: 76.68 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. Fresh off the back of the financially disastrous Montreal Games of 1976 and the politically controversial Moscow Games of 1980, the Olympic movement returned to the United States for the sixth time in an attempt to salvage the economic viability and global prestige of the Olympics. The Los Angeles Olympics proved to be both provocative and polarizing. On the one hand they have been heralded as an overwhelming, transformative success, ushering the Olympic movement into the modern commercial age. On the other hand, critics have repudiated the Games as a manifestation of commercial excess and a platform for western political and cultural propaganda. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Olympics, this volume examines their legacy. With an international collection of contributing scholars, this volume will span a range of global legacies, including the increasing commercialization of the Games, the changing participation of women, the Communist boycott movement, nationalism and sporting identity, and the modernization and California-cation of the Games. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

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Size: 39.86 MB
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Size: 13.85 MB
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Frank N. Pieke
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Limited
ISBN:
Size: 59.70 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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This two volume set collects in a conveniently accessible form the most influential articles by leading authorities in the study of China. It provides an international reference work, combined with an authoritative introduction by the editor.

Author: Jui-Sung Yang
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004318739
Size: 51.23 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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In Body, Ritual and Identity: A New Interpretation of Yan Yuan, Yang Jui-sung has demonstrated that the complexity of Yan’s ideas and his hatred for Zhu Xi in particular need be interpreted in light of his traumatic life experiences, his frustration over the fall of the Ming dynasty, and anxiety caused by the civil service examination system.

Author: Bryan S. Turner
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845455507
Size: 38.66 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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The past few decades have seen growing interest in the study of the body, not least thanks to Michel Foucaults historical studies of medicine in the 1970s, which inspired the initial development of the contemporary study of the human body. However, the increasing number of exciting and influential publications has primarily, if not exclusively, focused on the body in Western cultures. The various works produced by Asian scholars remain largely unknown to Western academic debates even though Asia is home to a host of rich body cultures and religions. The peoples of Asia have experienced colonization, decolonization, and now globalization, all of which make the "body in Asia" a rewarding field of research. This volume is unique, as it brings together into a single volume a number of scholars who work on East, Southeast and South Asia and presents original and cutting-edge research on the body in various Asian cultures.

Author: Patricia Ojea
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
ISBN: 9780073031972
Size: 28.88 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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[TofC cont.] -- Political science, law, and criminal justice, public policy and administration: Future of Roe v. Wade / C. Sanger, S.T. Poppema, and F. Kissling -- Business, economics, labor, and employment -- Sociology and anthropology: Gay families come out / B. Kantrowitz. [This book first] introduces several historic roles of women in American society, and variations of American feminism. At the heart of these roles is the notion that women's perspectives, interpretations, and roles are defined by women. [It then] examines females' attitudes, roles, and outcomes in education, as well as the speculation about differences in the cognitive abilities of adults, and employment issues for women [and also] health care issues and hospital policies ... [The book next] covers feminine religious roles ... politics, law, and issues related to women in the military, sexual harassment, and pregnancy in the workplace. [The book finally] examines women and employment historically [and] issues of the 1990s, including gay families, domestic violence, abortion, and the Million Woman March.-To the reader.

Author: Susan Brownell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520211032
Size: 42.77 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Chinese Literature: Lydia H. Liu