Lu Wenyun,Ian P Henry
Lu Wenyun
The rural population in China remains in the majority, and has traditionally played a key role in the development of China. This paper outlines the rhetoric of, and the material changes in the development of rural sports policy in the perio...
Bianca Miarka,Juliana Bastos Marques,Emerson Franchini
Bianca Miarka
This paper reassesses the role of women in judo in Japan, from its secluded and restricted beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the gradual changes in gender and social paradigms triggered by the influence of Western feminist strugg...
Huan Xiong
Huan Xiong
Since economic reform in the 1980s, Chinese sport has undergone an extraordinary transformation. The most distinguishing phenomenon is the rapid growth of mass sport at the grassroots level with increasing demands for physical activities in...