Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Series Editor's Foreword -- PROLOGUE From Dominated Domestic to Olympic Champion: Ideology, Gender and Elite Sport in China -- 1 Women, Society and Sport in the Early Years of the New China -- 2 Women, Society and Elite Sport in the New China between 1957 and 1965 -- 3 Women, Society and Elite Sport during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) -- 4 Women, Society and Elite Sport in the First Decade of Economic Reform (1977-89) -- 5 Women, Society and Elite Sport in the Transition to a Market Economy (1990-98) -- 6 Olympic Success, Drug Violations and Elite Women's Sport in the New China -- 7 New Women for a New Age: Conquest and Confrontation-Successful Sportswomen -- 8 Mobility, Stratification and Sportswomen in the New China -- 9 Gender Relations and Sport in the New China: Continuity, Change and Gender Culture -- EPILOGUE Elite Women's Sport in China: Bridging the Past and the Future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Index.

Drawing on Chinese sources hitherto unavailable in the West including official documents and interviews with top athletes, the author explores the rise of Chinese super sportswomen and their relationship with politics, culture and society before and during the Cultural Revolution and through China's transition to a market economy.

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