Sport in Asian Society

J. A. Mangan is Director of the International Research Centre for Sport, Socialisation and Society at the University of Strathclyde and author and editor of many books. He is founder and General Editor of the Cass series Sport in the Global Society and founding and Executive Academic Editor of many Cass journals. Fan Hong is reader in Department of Sports Sciences at De Montfort University. She was an editor of the Journal of Sports Culture and History, published by the Sports Mnistry in Beijing in the 1980s. her main research interests are in the areas of body, gender and sport with particular reference to China and Asia.

• Prologue - Asian sport - from the recent past, J.A. Mangan; imperial origins -Christian manliness, moral imperatives and pre-Sri Lankan playing fields -beginnings, J.A. Mangan; imperial origins - Christian manliness, moral imperatives and pre-Sri Lankan playing fields - consolidation, J.A. Mangan; celestials in touch -sport and the Chinese in colonial Singapore, N.G. Aplin and Quek Jon Jong; "sportsmanship" - English inspiration and Japanese response - F.W. Strange and Chiyosaburo Takeda, Ikuo Abe and J.A. Mangan; "healthy bodies, healthy minds -sport and society in colonial Malaya, Janice N. Brownfoot; cricket in colonial India -the Bombay pentangular, 1892-1946, Boria Majumdar; sport in China - conflict between tradition and modernity, 1840s to 1930s, Fan Hong and Tan Hua; ideology, politics, power - Korean sport - transformation, 1945-92, Ha Nam-Gil and J.A. Mangan; shackling the lion - sport and modern Singapore, Peter A. Horton; the juggernaut of globalization - sport and modernization in Iran, H.E. Chehabi; "Pancasila" - sport and the building of Indonesia - ambitions and obstacles, Iain Adams; communist China - sport, politics and diplomacy, Fan Hong and Xiong Xiaozheng; the road to modernization - sport in Taiwan, Trevor Slack et al; sport in India - policies, practices and problems, Packianathan Chelladurai et al; from Iran to all of Asia - the origin and diffusion of polo, H.E. Chehabi and Allen Guttman; epilogue - into the future - Asian sport and globalization, Fan Hong.