Colonial Project, National Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonial Project, National Game write by Andrew D. Morris. This book was released on 2011. Colonial Project, National Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Morris successfully weaves the intricacies of baseball's history into a compelling narrative while giving us a keen analysis of its larger significance. It is rare to find someone who can pull that off. This is an absorbing and distinguished addition to sports history, to Taiwanese history, and to studies of colonialism and its aftermath."--William Kelly, Yale University "Colonial Project, National Game offers an engaging and penetrating analysis of the culture of baseball in Taiwan, in both its local and global conditions. Morris weaves details into a compelling narrative that is as much about the game on the field as the game being played out in the arenas of ethnicity, nationalism and geopolitics. Morris's study is a model of sophistication and lucidity. He demonstrates that through a perceptive reading of the mundane world of curve balls and player contracts, we can better understand the ideological substructure of the social."--Joseph R. Allen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
The Politics and Culture of Modern Sports
The Politics and Culture of Modern Sports - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics and Culture of Modern Sports write by Sheldon Anderson. This book was released on 2015-12-15. The Politics and Culture of Modern Sports available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities and the way leaders have exploited sports to achieve domestic and foreign policy goals. The book focuses on the development of national sporting cultures in Great Britain and the United States, the particular processes by which the rest of Europe and the world adopted or rejected their games, and the impact of sports on domestic politics and foreign affairs. Teams competing in international sporting events provide people a shared national experience and a means to differentiate “us” from “them.” Particular attention is paid to the transnational influences on the construction of sporting communities, and why some areas resisted dominant sporting cultures while others adopted them and changed them to fit their particular political or societal needs. A recurrent theme of the book is that as much as they try, politicians have been frustrated in their attempts to achieve political ends through sport. The book provides a basis for understanding the political, economic, social, and diplomatic contexts in which these games were played, and to present issues that spur further discussion and research.
Baseball Beyond Our Borders
Baseball Beyond Our Borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Baseball Beyond Our Borders write by George Gmelch. This book was released on 2017-03-01. Baseball Beyond Our Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A collection of essays about baseball in other countries across the globe that explores a wide range of issues for each region"--
Empire of Infields
Empire of Infields - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire of Infields write by John J. Harney. This book was released on 2019-07-01. Empire of Infields available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the Empire of Japan defeated the Chinese Qing Dynasty in 1895 and won its first colony, Taiwan, it worked to establish it as a model colony. The Japanese brought Taiwan not only education and economic reform but also a new pastime made popular in Japan by American influence: baseball. But unlike in many other models, the introduction of baseball to Taiwan didn’t lead to imperial indoctrination or nationalist resistance. Taiwan instead stands as a fascinating counterexample to an otherwise seemingly established norm in the cultural politics of modern imperialism. Taiwan’s baseball culture evolved as a cultural hybrid between American, Japanese, and later Chinese influences. In Empire of Infields John J. Harney traces the evolution and identity of Taiwanese baseball, focusing on three teams: the Nenggao team of 1924–25, the Kan? team of 1931, and the Hongye schoolboy team of 1968. Baseball developed as an aspect of Japanese cultural practices that survived the end of Japanese rule at the end of World War II and was a central element of Japanese influence in the formation of popular culture across East Asia. The Republic of China (which reclaimed Taiwan in 1945) only embraced baseball in 1968 as an expression of a distinct Chinese nationalism and as a vehicle for political narratives. Empire of Infields explores not only the development of Taiwanese baseball but also the influence of baseball on Taiwan’s cultural identity in its colonial years and beyond as a clear departure from narratives of assimilation and resistance.
Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater
Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater write by Peilin Liang. This book was released on 2019-07-26. Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater, Peilin Liang develops a theory of bodily transformation. Proposing the concept of transformance, a conscious and rigorous process of self-cultivation toward a reconceptualized body, Liang shows how theater practitioners of minoritized cultures adopt transformance as a strategy to counteract the embodied practices of ideological and economic hegemony. This book observes key Taiwanese contemporary theater practitioners at work in forging five reconceptualized bodies: the energized, the rhythmic, the ritualized, the joyous, and the (re)productive. By focusing on the development of transformance between the years of 2000–2008, a tumultuous political watershed in Taiwan’s history, the author succeeds in bridging postcolonialism and interculturalism in her conceptual framework. Ideal for scholars of Asian and postcolonial theater, Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater shows how transformance, rather than performance, calibrates with far greater precision and acuity the state of the body and the culture that it seeks to create.
