Australia's Asian Sporting Context, 1920s - 30s - 9781138946804

Taylor & Francis

Australia's Asian Sporting Context, 1920s - 30sAuthor(s): Sean Brawley, Nick Guoth\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138946804, 978-1138946804\nSynopsis\nThis book examines Australias sporting relationships with the Asian region during the interwar period. Until now, Australias sporting relationships with the Asian region have been neglected by scholars of Australian and Asian sports history, and the broader field of Australias Asian context. Concentrating on the period of the 1920s and 1930s when sporting relationships between Australia and a number of Asian nations emerged in a variety of sports this book demonstrates the depth of these previously under-examined connections. The book challenges, and complicates, the broader historiography of Australias Asian context a historiography that has been strongly influenced by the White Australia Policy and the Pacific War. Why, for example, did white Australia so w.