00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217613057523 Buklod 20190711152253.0 a r |||| u| ta 190711s2016 xx d r |||| u| 9789814722032 (iLib)UPD-00408764534 DLC DCHK rda eng DMLUC GV 649 H84 2016 Huebner, Stefan author. Pan-Asian sports and the emergence of modern Asia, 1913-1974 Stefan Huebner. Singapore NUS Press [2016] ©2016 xiv, 397 pages 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-386) and index. Introduction (pp. 1-16) -- CHAPTER 1 Muscular Christianity and the 'Western Civilizing Mission': Elwood S. Brown, the YMCA, and the Founding of the Far Eastern Championship Games (pp. 17-54) -- CHAPTER 2 The Far Eastern Championship Games and the Western Asiatic Games in the 1920s and 1930s: 'Games of the Asians, by the Asians, for the Asians' (pp. 55-101) -- CHAPTER 3 Building Nehru's Asia through Sport: The First Asian Games, Decolonization, International Peace, Modernization, and Development (4-11 March 1951) (pp. 102-124) -- CHAPTER 4 A 'Free Country' Belonging to the 'Free World': Philippine Independence, Dubious Democracy, and the Second Asian Games (1-9 May 1954) (pp. 125-146) -- CHAPTER 5 'Give Us the Olympic Games': Peaceful Internationalism, 'Reborn' Japan, Olympic-Scale Perfection, and the Third Asian Games (24 May--1 June 1958) (pp. 147-173) -- CHAPTER 6 Turning Indonesia into the Beacon of a Non-Aligned Asia: The Sukarno Administration, the Fourth Asian Games, and the Struggle against Imperialism and Neocolonialism (24 August-4 September 1962) (pp. 174-201) -- CHAPTER 7 The King, the Military, and Thai Development: Hosting the Fifth and the Sixth Asian Games Consecutively (9-20 December 1966 and 1970) (pp. 202-229) -- CHAPTER 8 Iran and the Indian Ocean Region Project: The Great Persian Empire, Oil Wealth, and the Seventh Asian Games (1-16 September 1974) (pp. 230-260) -- Conclusion (pp. 261-277) The history of regional sporting events in 20th century Asia yields insights into Western and Asian perspectives on what defines modern Asia, and can be read as a staging of power relations in Asia and between Asia and the West. The Far Eastern Championship Games began in 1913, and were succeeded after the Pacific War by the Asian Games. Missionary groups and colonial administrations viewed sporting success not only as a triumph of physical strength and endurance but also of moral education and social reform. Sporting competitions were to shape a "new Asian man" and later a "new Asian woman" by promoting internationalism, egalitarianism and economic progress, all serving to direct a "rising" Asia toward modernity. Over time, exactly what constituted a "rising" Asia underwent remarkable changes, ranging from the YMCA's promotion of muscular Christianity, democratization, and the social gospel in the US-colonized Philippines to Iranian visions of recreating the Great Persian Empire. Based on a vast range of archival materials and spanning sixty years and three continents, Pan-Asian Sport and the Emergence of Modern Asia shows how pan-Asian sporting events helped shape anti-colonial sentiments, Asian nationalisms, and pan-Asian aspirations in places as diverse as Japan and Iran, and across the span of countries lying between them. In English. Sports Social aspects Asia History. Nationalism and sports Asia History. Asia Civilization 20th century. Sports in Society & Culture SS 160. Philosophy of Sports & Physical Education PEd 93. NUS Press publisher. FO UPD DCHK GV 649 H84 2016 UPD DVAR GV 649 H84 2016 Book