Routledge Handbook of Sport in China

This volume comprehensively covers both historical and contemporary issues of sport in China The book addresses the development of sport in contemporary China- that has not yet attracted sufficient scholarly interests despite rising attention to economic, cultural, leisure and social development in Chinese society. Provides a comprehensive review as to the state- and market-led transformations in China's elite, mass, and industrial sport sectors. The book brings in up to date topics such as sport, leisure and tourism, sport and overseas Chinese, as well as sport studies research in China. The first volume that employs a diversity of angles to look at sport in China.