%0 Book
%A Tobias Zuser
%A Lawrence Ho
%D 2024
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2689-3479
%@ 9781433185380
%T Sport in Hong Kong
%B Culture, Identity, and Policy
%R 10.3726/b17998
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1327942
%X 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.
%K Community Sports, Rugby, Skateboarding, Football, Identity Politics, Nationalism, Sports Development, Sports Policy
%G English