Disability, sport, and the body in China

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This article examines state-sanctioned Chinese propaganda to investigate the emergence of sports for the disabled in China. The introduction of competitions for disabled athletes, an increased political interest in sports, and the development of disability legislation has heightened public awareness about physical disabilities in China during the late twentieth century.

Laws, regulations and rules, History, Social policy, Disabled persons, Sports, Discrimination against disabled persons, Handicapped discrimination, Chinese history, Propaganda, Sports for the handicapped, Mao Zedong

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Too much, too fast, too soon: Chinese women runners, accusations of steroid use, and the politics of American track and field

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This article examines how Western media attributed the Chinese women's success in 1993 track and field competitions to steroids. Issues discussed include communism's influence over non-Western countries, the Chinese athletes' apparent inability to perform better than Western-trained athletes, and women athletes' perceived inferiority to male athletes.

United States, Usage, Media coverage, Anabolic steroids, Women track and field athletes, Women's track and field athletics, Women's track and field

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What's the big idea? Reading the rhetoric of a national sport policy process

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The role of ideas in shaping the findings from a national taskforce in New Zealand is investigated. The key ideas like notions of efficiency, competitiveness and leadership are discussed, focusing on their contradictory/paradoxical nature.

Government domestic functions, New Zealand, Evaluation, Task analysis, Sportsmanship, Domestic policy

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