TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tobias Zuser
AU  - Lawrence Ho
PY  - 2024
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2689-3479
SN  - 9781433185380
TI  - Sport in Hong Kong
T2  - Culture, Identity, and Policy
DO  - 10.3726/b17998
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1327942
N2  - 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.
KW  - Community Sports, Rugby, Skateboarding, Football, Identity Politics, Nationalism, Sports Development, Sports Policy
LA  - English
ER  -