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This book presents a historical overview of the development of sport in Asia and Africa, examining indigenous traditional sports, the development of modern sports, and the contemporary place of sports in each country.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
An Overview of Sport in Asia and Africa
The International and National Expansion of Sports
Sport in Asia
Sport in Yemen Arab Republic
Sport in Japan
Sport in South Korea: Ssirum, the YMCA, and the Olympic Games
Sport in the People's Republic of China
Sport in Thailand
Physical Education and Sport in the Philippines
Sport in Malaysia
Sport in Africa
Sport in Egypt: Cultural Reflection and Contradiction of a Society
Sport in Botswana
Sport in Zaire
Sport in Nigeria
Sport in Kenya
Index

About the Author

ERIC A. WAGNER was Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio University. Since 1974 his articles have been published in Review of Sport and Leisure, International Review of Sport Sociology, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Sociology and Social Research, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, and Journal of Popular Culture. He contributed the chapter, Sports, in Handbook of Latin American Popular Culture (Greenwood Press, 1985) and Sport in Revolutionary Societies: Cuba and Nicaragua, in Sport and Society in Latin America (Greenwood Press, 1988).