Sport in Hong Kong

Zuser, Tobias; Ho, Lawrence

Sport in Hong Kong

Culture, Identity, and Policy

by Tobias Zuser (Volume editor) Lawrence Ho (Volume editor)

Monographs XIV, 176 Pages

Science, Society & Culture

Series: Sport in East and Southeast Asian Societies, Volume 5

Summary

This edited volume fills a gap in this understudied niche of sport in Hong Kong by offering an interdisciplinary inquiry that acknowledges 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.

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Title
Copyright
About the author
About the book
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Contents
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Sport Still Matters for Hong Kong
Chapter 2 Elite Sports Development in Hong Kong after the Handover
Chapter 3 “Community Sports without Communities?”: Community Sports Development in Neoliberal Hong Kong
Chapter 4 Priority of Sports Policy in Hong Kong: Discrepancy between Government Objectives and Public Discourse
Chapter 5 Women’s Attitudes to Race in Hong Kong Skateboarding
Chapter 6 Imagining Hong Kongness: The Case of Naturalized Footballers
Chapter 7 Rugby Sevens, Globalization, and Cosmopolitan Nationalism: Hong Kong’s Surprising Role in Rugby’s Rise to Olympic Sport
Chapter 8 The Making of a Sporting Field: Football Policy and Development in Hong Kong
Chapter 9 Conclusion: The Future of Sport in Hong Kong
Notes on Contributors
Series Index

Figures

Figure 8.1: Organizational Structure of HKFA (own figure)

Tables

Table 2.1: Direct financial support to athletes

Table 2.2: Hong Kong’s Summer Olympic performance since 1996

Table 2.3: Hong Kong’s Paralympic performance since 1996

Table 2.4: Hong Kong’s Asian Games medal performance since Bangkok 1998

Table 2.5: Hong Kong’s medal performance at the National Games of China since 1997

Table 4.1: The ten objectives of Aiming High—Together

Table 4.2: The performance targets of Aiming High—Together

Table 4.3: The ten codes used in the second stage of coding

Table 4.4: Articles’ stance concerning the government’s role in football in Hong Kong

Table 4.5: Criteria used when presenting the government’s role in football positively

Table 4.6: Criteria used when presenting the government’s role in football negatively

Table 5.1: List of participants

Table 6.1: List of players in the Hong Kong squad for the first match against China on September 3, 2015

Table 6.2: List of players in the Hong Kong squad for the second match against China on November 17, 2015

Table 8.1: Usage rate of sports & recreation facilities

Table 8.2: List of leaders of the Olympic Committee since 1950

Table 8.3: Chairmen of Hong Kong Sport Institute

Table 8.4: Chairmen of Sports Development Board

Table 8.5: Development of Elite Sports Frameworks (own table)

Table 8.6: Tier status definition of Sports Institute as of 2023

Table 8.7: List of HKFA presidents

Table 8.8: List of HKFA chairmen

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, we would like to thank series editor J. A. Mangan for initiating this exciting collection on sports in Asia. His energy and passion made it possible for us to put together this edited volume on Hong Kong amid the pressures of a global pandemic. We would also like to thank all our contributors for their commitment to this project which underlines the importance of sports-related research in this city for what is still a largely under-represented field. Meanwhile, we probably have also never spent as much time at home as we did over the last three years—so we are endlessly grateful to all who have endured our never-ending presence. Last but not least, we also thank the reader of this volume (this is you indeed). It was always a great wish to have an academic resource that illustrates the breadth, diversity, and significance of sports in Hong Kong—and your decision to take a look is the much-needed reassurance that this topic is worthwhile and important.

Dr. Tobias Zuser

Dr. Lawrence Ka-ki Ho

Hong Kong, August 2023

List of Abbreviations

AAF	Amateur Athletic Federation
AFC	Asian Football Confederation
APEC	Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
ASDF	Arts and Sport Development Fund
ASF&OC	Amateur Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong
CAAF	Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation of Hong Kong
CFA	Chinese Football Association
CRS	Council for Recreation and Sport
CSC	Community Sports Committee
CSD	Correctional Services Department
EADF	Elite Athletes Development Fund
EAFF	East Asias Football Federation
EAPRS	Elite Athletes Performance Recognition Scheme
EDB	Education Bureau
ESC	Elite Sports Committee
ETG	Elite Training Grant
ETGD	Elite Training Grant with Disabilities
EVSS	Elite Vote Support Scheme
FFS	Feeder System Scheme

Details

Pages: XIV, 176
ISBN (PDF): 9781433185380
ISBN (ePUB): 9781433185397
ISBN (MOBI): 9781433185403
ISBN (Hardcover): 9781433185373
DOI: 10.3726/b17998
Language: English
Publication date: 2024 (January)
Keywords: Community Sports Rugby Skateboarding Football Identity Politics Nationalism Sports Development Sports Policy
Published: New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford, 2024. XIV, 176 pp., 1 b/w ill., 22 b/w tables.

Biographical notes

Tobias Zuser (Volume editor) Lawrence Ho (Volume editor)

Dr. TOBIAS ZUSER is currently a Lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University. His research on sporting culture in China and Hong Kong has been widely published, discussing issues of nationalism, identity, globalization, and policy. Dr. LAWRENCE KA-KI HO is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at the Education University of Hong Kong. His research interests include history and sociology of colonial and decolonized policing, public order management, and sports sociology.

Sport in Hong Kong

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