Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324) and index.
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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).
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Drawing on Chinese sources hitherto unavailable in the West, official documents and interviews with top athletes, the author explores the rise of Chinese super sportswomen.