Post-Beijing 2008: Geopolitics, Sport and the Pacific Rim

About

J.A. Mangan Emeritus Professor of Strathclyde University is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society author of the internationally acclaimed Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School (CUP) and The Games Ethic and Imperialism (Penguin/Viking) a Founding Editor of the International Journal of the History of Sport other journals including Sport in Society and the series Sport in the Global Society. He has lectured worldwide and held fellowships (or their equivalent) in America (Berkeley) Africa Australasia and England (Oxford and Cambridge). 'Manufactured' Masculinity has attracted exceptional acclaim in America Africa Asia Australasia and Europe.Fan Hong is the Professor in Chinese Studies at University College Cork where she is the Head of the School of Asian Studies and Director of the Irish Institute of Chinese Studies. She is the President of Asian Studies Ireland Association and the Editor of Asian Studies Series. She is an academic editor of the International Journal of the History of Sport and a member of various editorial boards including the Sports Studies Journal and the International Encyclopaedia of Women and Sport. Her main research interests are in the areas of culture politics gender and sport with particular reference to Asia and China. She has published extensively in those fields.