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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226076474
ISBN13:9780226076478
Release Date:August 1995
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:401 Pages
Weight:1.28 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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