Sport and Body Cultures in East and Southeast Asia (Hardcover)

1. Sport and body cultures in east and south-east Asia Friederike Trotier and Alan Bairner 2. Changing an image through sports events: Palembang’s success story Friederike Trotier 3.Extravagance and its decline: China’s triple East Asian Games since the 2000s Marcus P. Chu 4. Belly dancing as exercise: image-building of a foreign dance in Taiwan Yuchi Chang, Po-Hsiu Lin and Tsuneo Sogawa 5. The Buddhist Basketball Association: sport practice and the cultivation of the body among Tai Lue monastics Roger Casas 6. Civilizing the Devil’s Own Country. The Scouting movement in Netherlands New Guinea as a tool for social, cultural and political change, 1950?1962 Jelle Zondag 7. Sports clubs and organizations in changing times: the case of Singapore Wai Cheong Eugene Chew, Ho Jin Chung and Jung Woo Lee 8. An exploratory examination of risk-management practices in South Korean community sport clubs Sungwon Kim, Todd L. Seidler, Daniel P. Connaughton and John O. Spengler 9. Bodies steeped in stew: sport, tradition and the bodies of the sumo wrestler R. Kenji Tierney