Modern Sport - The Global Obsession

Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes scholar, is based at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is Executive Editor of the Routledge journals Sport in Society and Soccer and Society and co-editor of the Routledge Series, Sport in the Global Society. A well-known media figure on television, he has also written extensively for the Times of India, Outlook, Wisden and Anandabazar Patrika.Fan Hong is a professor and the Director of the Irish Institute of Chinese Studies at University College Cork. She is a regional editor of the International Journal of the History of Sport and a member of various editorial boards including the Sports Studies Journal and the International Encyclopedia of Women and Sport.

• Prologue: Transcending National Boundaries. Boria Majumdar 1. A Man for the Future. Boria Majumdar and Projit B. Mukharji 2. Beijing Ambitions: An Analysis of the Chinese Elite Sports System and its Olympic Strategy for the 2008 Olympic Games Fan Hong, Ping Wu and Huan Xiong 3. Women, Nationalism and the Beijing Olympics: Preparing for Glory. Dong Jinxia 4. ‘Sadly Neglected’ – Hunting and Gendered Identities: A Study in Gender Construction. Callum McKenzie 5. Amateur World Champion, 1893: The International Cycling Career of American Arthur Augustus Zimmerman, 1888 – 1896 Andrew Ritchie 6 An Imperial Legacy – British by Inclination: Socialization, Education and a Gibraltarian Sense of Identity E. G. Archer 7. Discipline, Character, Health: Ideals and Icons of Nordic Masculinity 1860 – 1930 Henrik Meinander 8. Closing the Circle: Sponsorship and the Greek Olympic Games from Ancient Times to the Present Day Penelope Kissoudi 9. Maharajas and Cricket: Self, State, Province and Nation Boria Majumdar 10. The Political Significance of Sport: An Asian Case Study – Sport, Japanese Colonial Policy and Korean National Resistance, 1910 – 1945 Gwang Ok 11. Sport as a Political Tool: Tanzania and the Liberation of Africa Hamad S. Ndee 12. Celluloid Soccer: The Peculiarities of Soccer in Bengali Cinema Sharmistha Gooptu 13. Sedentary Games and the Nationalist Project: A Silent History Nirbed Ray and Projit Bihari Mukharji 14. Sports History in India: Prospects and Problems Kausik Bandyopadhyay 15. ‘For All That Was Good, Noble and True’: A Middle Class Martial Icon of Canadian Patriotism and British Imperialism John Lovell Dashwood Canada and the Great War. Colm Hickey 16. ‘Christ and the Imperial Games Fields’ in South-Central Africa – Sport and the Scottish Missionaries in Malawi, 1880 – 1914: Utilitarian Compromise. Markku Hokkanen. Epilogue: A Fine Example Has Boundless Power Fan Hong