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edition:Paperback
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category: History
published: Jan 2014
ISBN:9780774824828
publisher: UBC Press

Sporting Gender

Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China’s National Crisis, 1931-45

by Yunxiang Gao

tagged: china, women's studies, sociology of sports
Description

Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China in the early twentieth century. Gao shows how these women coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame, arguing that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China. This book brings vividly to life the histories of these women and demonstrates how intertwined they were with the aims of the state and the needs of society.

About the Author

Yunxiang Gao

Contributor Notes

Yunxiang Gao is an associate professor of East Asian history at Ryerson University.

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