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The gendered Tiyu discourse in modern China: a comparative reading of Chinese sports films

Zhong, Xi
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413476520

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2007, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, East Asian Languages and Literatures.
The national discourse of western concepts of “sports” and “physical cultivation” has been very popular in China since its first introduction at the beginning of the twentieth century. What lies behind its popularity in modern China is a deep concern with the idea of national salvation that is prevalent in colonial countries. It should also be seen as part of an obsession with body, which manifested itself in modern Chinese literary/cultural practice. Although scholars have recently devoted much attention to the general roles tiyu plays in this process of nation building, I find there is a lack of systematic examination of the relationship between physical activity of the female body and the tropes of modernization and nation building in both the Republican and PRC periods.
Kirk A. Denton (Advisor)
Patricia Sieber (Committee Member)
83 p.
Asian Studies

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  • Zhong, X. (2007). The gendered Tiyu discourse in modern China: a comparative reading of Chinese sports films [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413476520

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Zhong, Xi. The gendered Tiyu discourse in modern China: a comparative reading of Chinese sports films. 2007. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413476520.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Zhong, Xi. "The gendered Tiyu discourse in modern China: a comparative reading of Chinese sports films." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413476520

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