Pan–Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913–1974 Huebner Paperback

Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913-1974\nby Stefan Huebner\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Stefan Huebner\nTitle: Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913-1974\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Asian history\nPublisher: NUS Press\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9789814722032\nISBN-10: 9814722030\nRRP: \u00A335.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe 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 sport.