Sport in Hong Kong
Subtitle: Culture, Identity, and Policy
Series: Sport in East and Southeast Asian societies : geopolitical, political, cultural and social perspectives, 2689-3460 ; Vol. 5
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2023
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781433185373
Subjects: Recreation
Description: "This edited volume fills a gap in this understudied niche by offering an inter-disciplinary inquiry that acknowledges the depth and width for sport as a global force that shapes local culture, identity, and politics. As such this publication accommodates perspectives across sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, policy studies, and history to offer both a rich and complementary account of sporting culture in Hong Kong's socio-historical context. In the past, Orientalist myths told through movies and advertisements have produced an idealized image of Hong Kong as a city of hybridity, a place where "East meets West", with a futurist skyline that has inspired countless steampunk and sci-fi novels. However, the last few years have significantly changed the global perception of this Asian metropolis amidst the formation of a new geopolitical frontier. This volume is not so much a documentation of a peculiar sports system, but a timely discussion and analysis of Hong Kong as a postcolonial place in crisis mode"-- Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why sport still matters for Hong Kong / Tobias Zuser and Lawrence Ka Ki Ho -- Elite sport development in Hong Kong after the handover / Wen Wu, Patrick Wing Chung Lau, and Jinming Zheng -- "Community sports without communities?": community sports development in neoliberal Hong Kong / Wai Man Tang -- Priority of sports policy in Hong Kong: discrepancy between government objectives and public discourse / Chun Wing Lee -- Women's attitudes to race in Hong Kong skateboarding / Paul O'Connor and Clara Yee Ling Fok -- Imagining Hong Kongness : the case of naturalized footballers / Andy Chiu -- Rugby sevens, globalization, and cosmopolitan nationalism : Hong Kong's surprising role in rugby's rise to Olympic sport / Joseph Bosco -- The making of a sporting field : football policy and development in Hong Kong / Tobias Zuser