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Sporting Gender by Yunxiang Gao, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Yunxiang Gao

Current price: $32.95
Sporting Gender by Yunxiang Gao, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Sporting Gender by Yunxiang Gao, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Sporting Gender by Yunxiang Gao, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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When China hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics – and amazed international observers with both its pageantry and gold-medal count – it made a very public statement about the country’s surge to global power. Yet, China has a much longer history of using sport to communicate a political message. Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China during its national crisis of 1931-45 brought on by the Japanese invasion. By re-mapping lives and careers of individual female athletes, administrators, and film actors within a wartime context, Gao shows how these women coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame. While addressing the themes of state control, media influence, fashion, and changes in gender roles, she argues that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China at time when women’s emancipation and national needs went hand in hand. This book brings vividly to life the histories of these athletes and demonstrates how intertwined they were with the aims of the state and the needs of society. | Sporting Gender by Yunxiang Gao, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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