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Global Sports and Contemporary China

Sport Policy, International Relations and New Class Identities in the People’s Republic

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Authors:
  1. Oliver Rick

    1. Department of Sport Management and Recreation, Springfield College, Springfield, USA

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  2. Longxi Li

    1. Center for Leadership in Athletics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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  • Adds to the scholarship on sport in China by analysing the post-Olympic period
  • Engages with a variety of sources, including policy documentation and new qualitative data
  • Looks towards the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, to consider how a global China will shape global sport

Part of the book series: Global Culture and Sport Series (GCS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Global Sport in Contemporary China

    • Oliver James Collard Rick, Longxi Li
    Pages 1-25

  3. Chinese Sport Policy from Reform to the Millennium

    • Oliver James Collard Rick, Longxi Li
    Pages 27-45

  4. An Olympic China: Preparing for Beijing 2008

    • Oliver James Collard Rick, Longxi Li
    Pages 47-73

  5. Global Sports and Shifting Focus: Sport Policy, Investment, and the Inter-Olympic Period

    • Oliver James Collard Rick, Longxi Li
    Pages 75-94

  6. Sport and Accessing a Global Community

    • Oliver James Collard Rick, Longxi Li
    Pages 95-119

  7. When the Global Game Comes to the People’s Republic

    • Oliver James Collard Rick, Longxi Li
    Pages 121-141

  8. New Forms of Domestic Distinction: Sport and Contemporary Chinese Class Structure

    • Oliver James Collard Rick, Longxi Li
    Pages 143-178

  9. Tennis Culture and the Booming Urban Middle Class

    • Oliver James Collard Rick, Longxi Li
    Pages 179-204

  10. China’s Sporting Self-Determination: Achieving Independent Global Sporting Dominance

    • Oliver James Collard Rick, Longxi Li
    Pages 205-219

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 221-224
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About this book

This book examines the formation of a globally oriented sports system in China, from the beginning of the reform process in 1978 to the present, focusing on the period after the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. It analyses how this system has shaped domestic social class identities and its role in international Chinese state politics. Despite advances in the marketization of the sports industry through previous eras, the Chinese state expanded investment in a set of global sports following the heavily government-directed drive towards national success at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games. This would be a time when the government focused on policies set to service a growing domestic middle-class and an increasingly wide-ranging set of international interests, with sporting investments being at the heart of their strategic plan. However, reform has proven difficult. The book presents a well-rounded account of this effort with tennis and soccer providing important case studies of the internal and external dynamics of this time. As such, the book will be of interest to researchers and students of globalization of sport, those studying East Asian sports development, and those who are interested in understanding China more broadly.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sport Management and Recreation, Springfield College, Springfield, USA

    Oliver Rick

  • Center for Leadership in Athletics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Longxi Li

About the authors

Oliver Rick is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sport Management and Recreation at Springfield College, USA.


Longxi Li is a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Leadership in Athletics at the University of Washington, USA.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Global Sports and Contemporary China

  • Book Subtitle: Sport Policy, International Relations and New Class Identities in the People’s Republic

  • Authors: Oliver Rick, Longxi Li

  • Series Title: Global Culture and Sport Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18595-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18594-6Published: 07 January 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18597-7Published: 08 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18595-3Published: 05 January 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2662-3404

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-3412

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 224

  • Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sport Science , Asian Culture, Asian Politics

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