Overview:Martial Arts in Asia: History, Culture and Politics - Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives - The reawakening of Asian martial arts is a distinct example of cultural hybridity in a global setting. This book deals with history of Asian martial arts in the contexts of tradition, religion, philosophy, politics and culture. It attempts to deepen the study of martial arts studies in their transformation from traditional to modern sports. It is also important that this book explores how Asian martial arts, including Shaolin martial arts and Taekwondo, have worked as tools for national advocate of identities among Asians in order to overcome various national hardships and to promote nationalism in the modern eras. The Asian martial arts certainly have been transformed in both nature and content into unique modern sports and they have contributed to establishing cultural homogeneity in Asia. This phenomenon can be applied to the global community.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in the International Journal of the History of Sport.
This book is on page /0fb06c92acf561788291222b8bb2eff7/book/1603725641-9780815348139. It was written by the following authors: Gwang Ok, Fan Hong. Book Martial Arts in Asia: History, Culture and Politics - Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives, which can be read online, published by the company: Taylor & Francis Inc. Other books on similar topics can be found in sections: Sports Books, Beliefs, Politics, Spirituality, Society, Education. The book was published on 2018-05-01 00:00:00. It has 134 pages and is published in Hardback format and weight 413 g. File for download Martial Arts in Asia: History, Culture and Politics - Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives has PDF format and is called martial-arts-in-asia-history-culture-and-politics-sport-in-the-global-society-historical-perspectives.pdf. Other books you can download below. Our poumm.fr site is not responsible for the content of PDF files.
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