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Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic

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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 ...

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Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic 1995, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226076478

Trade paperback

Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic 1995, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226076461

2nd edition

Hardcover