num_pages: 376
description: Drawing on Chinese sources hitherto unavailable in the West including official documents and interviews with top athletes, the author explores the rise of Chinese super sportswomen and their relationship with politics, culture and society before and during the Cultural Revolution and through China's transition to a market economy.
language: English
title: Women, Sport and Society in Modern China: Holding up More than Half the Sky
titlecomplete: Women, Sport and Society in Modern China: Holding up More than Half the Sky (Sport in the Global Society)
publisher: Routledge