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Author Gao, Yunxiang

Title Sporting gender : women athletes and celebrity-making during China's national crisis, 1931-45 / Yunxiang Gao
Published Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary Chinese studies, 1206-9523
Contemporary Chinese studies.
Contents Zhang Huilan (1898-1996): The "Mother of Women's Modern Physical Education" -- Nationalist and Feminist Discourses on Jianmei (Robust Healthy Beauty) -- The Basketball Team of the Private Liangjiang Women's Tiyu Normal School -- The Evanescent Glory of the Track Queens -- "Miss China" Yang Xiuqiong (1918-82): A Female Olympic Swimmer -- Sportswomen on Screen: The "Athletic Movie Star," Li Lili (1915-2005)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Women athletes -- China -- Biography
Sports -- Social aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century
Sports -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century
Women in popular culture -- China -- 20th century
Sports in popular culture -- China -- 20th century
Mass media and sports -- China -- History -- 20th century
Body image in women -- China -- History -- 20th century
Women -- China -- Social conditions
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
Body image in women
Mass media and sports
Sports in popular culture
Sports -- Political aspects
Sports -- Social aspects
Women athletes
Women in popular culture
Women -- Social conditions
China
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
Author EBOUND Canada, manufacturer
ISBN 9780774824811
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