The Extraordinary Success of China's Female Athletes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501052101)

The rise of Chinese female athletic participation and success in international competitions has become the backbone for China's rise to sports relevance, and has been unlike historical Western nation-states' experience in athletics. This historical examination chronologically documents the rise of Chinese elite female athletes and the policies affecting athletes from 1949 to the present, and reveals a connection between female athletic success and state enforced gender equality policies that targeted culture, education, and labor. Through gender equality policies, men and women were uniformly exposed to a national sports system that invested in research, training, equipment, recruitment, and incentivizing athletes "to win honors for the country." Moreover, this examination evaluates various hypotheses on what Chinese policies, if any, have produced these extraordinary results, and proposes the sports system, although exceptionally successful, is ultimately imbalanced and plateauing, while the Chinese Communist Party desires participation, power, and control at the expense of possible broad athletic victory.

Author: Department of the Navy
ISBN-10: 1501052101
ISBN-13: 9781501052101
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2014
Pages: 70
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.14d