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The development of cricket in China

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posted on 2024-01-10, 14:28 authored by Boyang He, Dominic MalcolmDominic Malcolm

This article analyses the historical and future potential development of cricket in China, and in so doing advances existing theories of the sport’s cultural diffusion. Following a critical review of existing explanatory models, the article identifies four key phases in the game’s development in China (including Hong Kong). It outlines the game’s contemporary manifestation in relation to state-supported cricket, a grass roots movement, and the distinct and independent game in Hong Kong. It concludes by illustrating how the future of cricket in China will be shaped by the increasingly blurred relationship between the colonial and postcolonial, the renewed interdependence of trade and soft power, the role of education in stimulating interest beyond the traditional colonial model, and the importance of game innovations and multiple, co-existing formats. Uniquely combining English and Mandarin sources this article provides the most comprehensive, rigorous and up-to-date analysis of cricket in China available.

History

School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Cricket in the 21st Century

Pages

111 - 126

Publisher

Routledge

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© Taylor & Francis

Publisher statement

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Cricket in the 21st Century on 27/11/2023, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781032662107.

Publication date

2023-11-27

Copyright date

2024

Notes

Book chapter published from journal special issues.

ISBN

9781032662107; 9781032662138; 9781032662114

Book series

Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Souvik Naha; Dominic Malcolm

Depositor

Prof Dominic Malcolm. Deposit date: 18 December 2023

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