Pan-Asian Sports and The Emergence Of Modern Asia, 1913-1974

Singapore: NUS Press, 2016. Paperback. New. A wide-ranging and well researched history of the transformation of Asian sportsmanship from being promoted as an adjunct to moral education by Christian missionaries into a source of nationalist pride. Huebner starts with The Far Eastern Championship Games in 1913. This is followed by its reincarnation as the Asian Games after World… Read more about this item

Singapore: NUS Press. 2016. 395pp, paperback. The history of regional sporting events in 20th-century Asia yields insights into Western and Asian perspectives on what defines modern Asia, and can be read as a staging of power relations in Asia and between Asia and the West. The Far Eastern Championship Games began in 1913, and were succeeded after the Pacific War… Read more about this item

Natl Univ of Singapore Pr, 2016. Paperback. New. 397 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches.

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Paperback / softback. New. Based on a vast range of archival materials and spanning 60 years and 3 continents, Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia shows how pan-Asian sporting events helped shape anti-colonial sentiments, Asian nationalisms, and pan-Asian aspirations in places as diverse as Japan and Iran, and across the span of countries lying between them.