Table of Contents

List of Tables
Acknowledgments

Foreword by Joseph Alter

1. introduction

2. “now the fun of exercise can be realized”: from calisthenics and gymnastics ticao to sports tiyu in the 1910s

3. “mind, muscle, and money”: a physical culture for the 1920s

4. nationalism and power in the physical culture of the 1920s

5. “we can also be the controllers and oppressors”: social bodies and national physiques

6. elite competitive sport in the 1930s

7. from martial arts to national skills: the construction of a modern indigenous physical culture, 1912–37

8. tiyu through wartime and “liberation”

Glossary of Names
Glossary of Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index