{"title":"School football: the new hope! Exploring the new nationwide system of Chinese sport","authors":"Tianbiao Liu, Zhenming Mao, Pinghan Zha","doi":"10.1080/21640599.2016.1204048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2016.1204048","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract After the Beijing Olympic Games, people began to rethink the long‐existing sport ‘nationwide system’ in China in light of the many negative aspects of this system. School football, as a new and prominent product of this system, is playing a pioneering role in reforming the system. This paper analyses the existing problems with the old ‘nationwide system’ through interviews with field experts and suggests a roadmap to a new system. We take school football as an example of system reform, providing a possible way of not only developing school football itself but also reforming the system.","PeriodicalId":320773,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science","volume":"4668 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134112412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The exogenous cultural incorporation of football into the Australian mainstream: a case of polyglot multiculturalism","authors":"Jonnie Schnytzer, Baruch Shimoni, Y. Galily","doi":"10.1080/21640599.2016.1158454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2016.1158454","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explains soccer’s entrance into the Australian mainstream in consequence of the Australian Football Federation (FFA) exercising symbolic violence, a modus operandi with the goal of re-writing the game’s cultural history. The claim is that the FFA attempts to hide the game’s historic foundations of ethnic diversity, with a multitude of ethnic-minority clubs (Greek, Italian, Hungarian, Maltese etc.) as well as its own actions which led to their eventual elimination and to create a perception that the game is Anglo-Australian. These attempts, it is claimed here, are similar to the theoretical model of polyglot multiculturalism; the dominant majority group will allow ethnic minorities to practise their own cultures so long as certain cultural boundaries, which may threaten the dominant culture, are not crossed.This paper contributes to the literature of multiculturalism in that it uses the empirical case of soccer in Australia to describe the imaginary boundary which a dominant culture will not allow ethnic-minority cultures to cross.","PeriodicalId":320773,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128769722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An anthropological analysis of Olympic ritual, the Beijing Olympics and the realization of the ‘China Dream’","authors":"Shuying Yuan","doi":"10.1080/21640599.2016.1145939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2016.1145939","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Chinese President Xi Jinping first announced ‘China Dream’ on 29 November 2012. It refers to the governing philosophy and goals of the new generation of leaders. Since then, rippling out from Beijing, the ‘China Dream’ has become globally important as a world language that can across borders and cultures. The realization of the ‘China Dream’ is linked to the acquisition of cultural and national identity. Therefore, choosing an appropriate platform upon which to overcome the differences between languages and cultures in order to acquire international recognition is the most valued commodity for the future development of China. As an example, this study takes the case of the Beijing Olympic Games and explores the relationship between ritual and cultural and national identity from an anthropological perspective. The paper analyses China’s national forms of behaviour that construct a ‘living image’ in order to form a collective memory by means of the function of ritual. The aim is to summarize this useful experience for the better realization of the ‘China Dream’ and also for the future development of Olympics.","PeriodicalId":320773,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122454486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the historical transformation of the dragon boat race of the Miao in the Qingshui River region of Guizhou Province of China from a cultural anthropological perspective","authors":"Meng Meng, T. Sogawa","doi":"10.1080/21640599.2016.1153243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2016.1153243","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The dragon boat race of the Miao is a large-scale agricultural sacrificial rite in the Qingshui River region of the Guizhou Province of China. A one-year-and-three-month field investigation and research project, based on the methodology and theory of cultural anthropology, were conducted, by which the related geographical surroundings, local production and life styles, people’s religious beliefs, social structure and customs and other relevant aspects have been studieded from the point of view of others, and the origins and historical transformation of the dragon boat race of the Miao are discussed here and elaborated on by an analysis of its complicated social and cultural phenomena to reveal an impression of Miao society which reflects the integration of enculturation, acculturation and socialization.","PeriodicalId":320773,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130377510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The bloomsbury companion to the philosophy of sport","authors":"A. Bairner","doi":"10.1080/21640599.2016.1172407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2016.1172407","url":null,"abstract":"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science on 13 Apr 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2016.1172407","PeriodicalId":320773,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114179905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Considerations on Wushu’s national culture characteristics","authors":"Jie Song, H. Yue","doi":"10.1080/21640599.2016.1145940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2016.1145940","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The failure of Chinese Wushu to be admitted to the Olympic Games can be attributed to two factors. One is the unwise strategy chosen to apply for admittance to the Games; the other is an incorrect understanding of how to propagate Chinese traditional culture associated with Wushu. In circumstances in which Wushu’s domestic superiority has gradually weakened, instead, excessive emphasis on the physical properties of martial arts together with neglect of its national culture characteristics will definitely result in the loss of its original attraction. Therefore, this article proposes that the sustainable approach to carrying forward Wushu’s national essence is to draw upon its primitive morphology, to obey the intrinsic laws of martial arts development, and thereby to spread it both domestically and internationally in the form of a folk practice.","PeriodicalId":320773,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116330159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Sum, M. S. Ma, A. Ha, T. Tang, C. Shek, C. Cheng, F. Kong
{"title":"Action research exploring Chinese physical education teachers’ value of physical education: from belief to culture","authors":"R. Sum, M. S. Ma, A. Ha, T. Tang, C. Shek, C. Cheng, F. Kong","doi":"10.1080/21640599.2016.1164942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2016.1164942","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This action research explored how Chinese physical education teachers orient their values of physical education in the secondary and primary schools in which they teach. The purpose of the research was to allow participants to master the current progress in the development of physical education in Hong Kong, to provide a platform for participants to share and learn from one anothera platform for participants to shareess in the development of good practices through an evidence-based approach. The research team was composed of frontline physical educators from various settings, i.e. primary school, secondary school, teacher education institution and community adult education in physical education. Cheng, who taught at a primary school, and Shek, from a secondary school, participated as teacher-researchers in the study. There were two cycles of intervention with each cycle consisting of planning, acting, developing and reflecting. Through the process, the two teacher-researchers were able to realize how their teaching styles could have been established according to their beliefs and intentions. The group reflection process, involving frontline physical educators from different settings, allowed the participants to clarify their self-understanding on teaching perspectives and to reinforce their values towards physical education. In discussion, a spiral model from belief to culture was proposed to conceptualize how physical education teachers can orient their values of physical education in the schools where they teach.","PeriodicalId":320773,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117137924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Kee, J. Fry, C. K. John Wang, Yek Wei Chong, Chunxiao Li
{"title":"Silver lining in winning silver: an exploratory study of supporters’ reactions and coping on the social media towards Lee Chong Wei’s London Olympics defeat","authors":"Y. Kee, J. Fry, C. K. John Wang, Yek Wei Chong, Chunxiao Li","doi":"10.1080/21640599.2016.1145938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2016.1145938","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The experience of loss is prevalent in all sports, but research into the phenomenon is scarce. Comments related to two YouTube videos which featured interviews with Malaysian badminton player Lee Chong Wei after his narrow final defeat to Lin Dan in the 2012 London Olympics were analysed in an exploratory attempt to understand supporters’ reactions and coping with the loss on social media. Content analysis of supporters’ collective reactions suggests that most of Lee’s supporters who posted comments were able to find a ‘silver lining in the cloud’ despite this loss, i.e. signs of coping were prevalent. The following seven categories were identified: (a) providing rationalizations, (b) offering solace, (c) expressing emotion, (d) showing respect, (e) displaying solidarity, (f) injecting humour, and (g) being negative. Insights from this study based on reactions on social media offer a fresh perspective for understanding supporters’ coping strategies in response to sport losses which could serve as a catalyst for future understanding of sport losses in sport psychology.","PeriodicalId":320773,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124118700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A History of Football in North and South Korea c. 1910–2002: Development and diffusion","authors":"J. Lee","doi":"10.1080/21640599.2017.1323613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2017.1323613","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":320773,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science","volume":"1980 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134005371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sport celebrity in South Korea: Park, Tae-Hwan from new generation to fallen angel","authors":"Younghan Cho","doi":"10.1080/21640599.2015.1127943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2015.1127943","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines the process of how an athlete is constructed as a national celebrity in South Korea through media discourses both online and offline. To this end, the paper explores the media discourses around Park Tae-Hwan, a South Korean swimmer and superstar, and suggests three distinct and related dimensions that have constructed him as a national celebrity. These three dimensions are a new generation, a national and regional celebrity and a fallen (national) angel. The analysis of the discourses on Park demonstrates both the inseparable relationship between the media and sport celebrity and the complex, contradictory roles of sport celebrity vis-à-vis national, regional and global sensibilities in South Korea. Ultimately, the construction of Park as national celebrity reveals a key structure of feeling in South Korea in which nationalist sentiment, regional rivalry and global desire not only converge but also compete against each other.","PeriodicalId":320773,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130184285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}