主办单位:成都体育学院
ISSN 1001-9154 CN 51-1097/G8

›› 2013, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (4): 19-24.

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Body Politics in Modern Chinese Sports Culture

ZHNG Da-Zhi   

  1. Suzhou University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215021
  • Received:2013-01-10 Revised:2014-01-03 Online:2013-04-01 Published:2014-01-03

Abstract: In modern times, the body is entrusted with different social missions in different historical periods. With the intervention of political factors, the body is constantly generating meaning, the reflection of which is the creation of sports culture by means of the body politics. As the the carrier of sports, body movements inject great possibilities into sports value and meaning. Throughout most of China's modern sports history, body politics has enabled sports culture to experience different periods characterized by eliminating the title of “sick man of East Asia” , promoting production as the means and realizing the national fitness program, which constitutes the sports practice in different periods and ultimately influences the formation of people’s different sports values.

Key words: body politics, sports culture, national fitness, health right

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