Brian (Hrsg.) Bridges

The Sports Development of Hong Kong and Macau

New Challenges after the Handovers

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China's sports history and its contemporary role in the global sporting community have become well-known, but the sporting history and development of China's two Special Administrative Regions - Hong Kong and Macau - have not received the coverage they deserve either in their historical contexts or since the handovers of control to the People's Republic. By drawing on a multi-national group of scholars and practitioners, this volume makes a unique contribution to the understanding of sports development in greater China. The essays in this anthology examine the evolution of key sports, the hosting of sporting mega-events, the nexus of sports a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Chu, Marcus P. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-351-18230-0
EAN: 9781351182300
Produktnummer: 32850718
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 168 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'952 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Brian Bridges is an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Formerly Head of that Department (2007-10), he specialises in the international politics and modern history of the Asian Pacific region, with a particular focus on the sport-politics nexus. His most recent book is The Two Koreas and the Politics of Global Sport (2012).Marcus P. Chu is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, where he has been teaching since 2012. He has published extensively on the politics of sport in China and is working on a book project exploring the history and politics of sporting mega-events in the greater China region.