International Conference: Nationalism, Orientalism and Globalism: the Asian Games, Asian Sports and the Rising Asia
A two day International Conference entitled 'Nationalism, Orientalism and Globalism: the Asian Games, Asian Sports and the Rising Asia' took place in Chengdu, China between December 6th and 7th 2010.
20 distinguished academics from America, Australia, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, and UK gathered at Chengdu Sport University and discusserd the Asian Games and Asian sports from various perspectives. They focused on original research and first-hand material from archives across Asia and addressed a number of issues in relation to the Asian Games and Asian sports including: politics, policy and Asian sports; nationalism and cultural identity; Orientalism, globalism and the Asian Games; commercialisation of the Asian Games and Asian sports; Asian sports and social development; Asian sports and diplomacy.
The conference was jointly organized with Chengdu Sport University which has a distinguished sports history research centre; The International Journal of the History of Sport (IJHS), Routledge; and the School of Asian Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. It is intended that selected papers will be published in The International Journal of the History of Sport in 2012.
Scholars visit the Museum of Traditional Chinese Sports at Chengdu Sport University during the Conference
