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The development of cricket in China

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posted on 2020-08-20, 13:41 authored by Boyang He, Dominic MalcolmDominic Malcolm
© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. 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

Sport in Society

Volume

24

Issue

8

Pages

1372-1387

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© Taylor and Francis

Publisher statement

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Sport in Society on 27 Jul 2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2020.1795134

Publication date

2020-07-27

Copyright date

2020

ISSN

1743-0437

eISSN

1743-0445

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Dominic Malcolm. Deposit date: 17 August 2020