Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan Volume 6
(Part of the Asia Pacific Modern Series)
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In this engrossing cultural history of baseball in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris traces the game's social, ethnic, political, and cultural significance since its introduction on the island more than one hundred years ago. Introduced by the Japanese colonial government at the turn of the century, baseball was expected to "civilize" and modernize Taiwan's Han Chinese and Austronesian Aborigine populations. After World War II, the game was tolerated as a...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520262794
ISBN13:9780520262799
Release Date:November 2010
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:290 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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