The East Asian Olympiads, 1934-2008 : building bodies and nations in Japan, Korea, and China / edited by William M. Tsutsui and Michael Baskett.

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The East Asian Olympiads, 1934-2008: Building Bodies and Nations in Japan, Korea, and China is the first scholarly volume to focus on the collective East Asian experience of the Olympic Games. These twelve essays, from the diverse disciplinary perspectives of anthropology, geography, history, political science, and sports studies, explore how the Asian Olympics were used as patriotic exercises and yardsticks of social progress, shaped ideals of individual health and national strength, and were manipulated by states, interest groups, commercial concerns, and the media. This innovative collection suggests that the Olympics have played an important role in the creation of a modern East Asian identity in a world¿́¿and a global sporting culture¿́¿still dominated by the West.

Preliminary material / William M. Tsutsui and Michael Baskett -- Introduction / William M. Tsutsui -- Athletics as Politics: Japan, the Phillipines, and the Far Eastern Olympics of 1934 / Grant K. Goodman -- Going for the Gold: Health and Sports in Japan's Quest for Modernity / Barak Kushner -- When Athletes Are Diplomats: Competing for World Opinion at the Tokyo Olympiads / Jessamyn R. Abel -- Public Service/Public Relations: The Mobilization of the Self-Defense Force for the Tokyo Olympic Games / Aaron Skabelund -- Foreign and Domestic Bodies: Sexual Anxieties and Desires at the Tokyo Olympics / Paul Droubie -- Nationalist Desires, State Spectacles, and Hegemonic Legacies: Retrospective Tales of Seoul's Olympic Regime / James P. Thomas -- Cultural Policy and the 1988 Seoul Olympics: "3S" as Urban Body Politics / Lisa Kim Davis -- "Why Are They So Far Ahead of Us?" The National Body, National Anxiety, and the Olympics in China / Andrew Morris -- The Olympic Games and China's Search for Internationalization / Xu Guoqi -- Uneven Political Reform and Development in the Shadow of the Beijing Olympic Games / John James Kennedy -- S(up)porting Roles: East Asian Women and the Olympic Games / Robin Kietlinski -- Sports Mega-Events and the Shaping of Urban Modernity in East Asia / John Horne -- Index / William M. Tsutsui and Michael Baskett.

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