Colonial Project, National Game
A History of Baseball in Taiwan
In this engrossing cultural history of baseball in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris traces the game's social, ethnic, political, and cultural significance since its introduction on the island more than one hundred years ago. Introduced by the Japanese colonial government at the turn of the century, baseball was expected to civilize and modernize Taiwan's Han Chinese and Austronesian Aborigine populations. After World War II, the game was tolerated as a remnant of Japanese culture and then strategically employed by the ruling Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Even as it was also enthroned by Taiwanese politicians, cultural producers, and citizens as the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-94760-3
- EAN: 9780520947603
- Produktnummer: 21979453
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 290 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 9'471 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Reihenbandnummer: 6
Über den Autor
Andrew D. Morris is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is the author of Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China (UC Press) and coeditor of The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan.
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