Fan Hong
Biographic Data
| ID | 6556543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fan Hong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hong |
| SIGNATURE | HONG F |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1730-7861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Politics, diplomacy, and the Asian games
Introduction The Asian Games are often discussed as a regional counterpart to the Olympics, yet their political significance remains insufficiently examined. This article addresses this gap by asking how host states use the Asian Games as a political platform. Methods The study draws on a comparative analysis of recent host cases, including China, South Korea, Indonesia, Qatar, and Japan. It uses official documents, government promotional materia…
A Qualitative Study Exploring the Mechanisms Underlying Self‐Management Behaviours Among Community‐Dwelling Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in Nanjing, China
BACKGROUND: Effective self-management is essential for improving the health outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, many patients fail to achieve ideal self-management. This qualitative study, grounded in the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), aims to explore the mechanisms underlying self-management behaviours of patients with T2DM in the community, to provide insights for improve patients' self-management and reduce …
The Impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on China and the Olympic Movement
This paper aims to explore the impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on Chinese sport and Chinese society as well as the international Olympic Movement and Games. It asks three questions: What have been the purported impacts of the Beijing Games on China’s sport culture and practice? Did the 2008 Beijing Games contribute to the development of the Olympic movement? What, if any, social progress has been achieved through the Beijing Games? In an…
Sport, Ideology and Nation-Building in the Early Years of the People’s Republic of China
This paper examines Chinese sport policy and practice from 1949 to 1952 through an examination of the role of ideology in nation-building. Drawing on Gramsci’s theory of cultural hegemony, this study examines the nature of the ideological domination by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during this period and explores its sports policy and the political implications of this policy. Arguing that sport policy in the early years of the People’s Repub…
The Routledge Handbook of Sport in Asia
"This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, development and contemporary significance of sport in Asia. It addresses a wide range of issues central to sport in the context of Asian culture, politics, economy and society. The book explores diverse topics including the history of traditional Asian sports; the rise of modern sports in Asia; the Olympic movement in Asia; mega sport events in Asia; sport governance and po…
Oral History and Sport Historians in China
It was only in the last decade that oral history began to be practised by Chinese scholars of sport history. Only tens of peer-reviewed journal articles and a couple of monographs have been published so far. Most oral sport history projects were concerned with the heirs of endangered traditional martial arts. This limited focus is a result of the fact that studies of the social and cultural aspects of sport history in which oral methods are more …
The Historiography of Asian Sport
This article examines the historiography of Asian sport focusing mainly on Northeast Asia, including China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. A brief overview of the development of the discipline of sport history in different Asian nations is offered in the first section. The second section turns to the international development of Asian sport history, followed in the third section by a review of the role of the Asian Journal of Sport History & Cult…
China’s Sports Heroes
Sport has been of great importance to the construction of Chinese national consciousness during the past century. This article examines how China’s sport celebrities have played their part in nation building and identity construction. It points out that Chinese athletes’ participation in international sporting events in the first half of the twentieth century demonstrated China’s motivation to stay engaged with the world, and therefore led to the…
Indigenous Sports in Asia
In Asian history, there are abundant and diverse indigenous, folk, or ethnic sports in various regions or nations. The development of indigenous sports culture in Asian countries in the past decade
Body · Experience · Imagination
In order to understand Chinese martial arts (CMA), people had better find out how native Chinese people picture these ancient arts. Maurice Halbwachs’s theory on collective memory is helpful to cognize the panorama of CMA. In the term of social framework, the contributors of the collective memory of CMA are mainly well-experienced inheritors, shallow-experienced mass practitioners and highly educated intellectuals. They respectively perceive mart…
Cultural Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Modernization of Physical Education and Sport in China, 1840–1949
This paper examines how missionary educational institutions and Young Men’s Christian Association physical education and sport programmes, in conjunction with the nation-building project of the Nationalist government, transformed and modernized physical education and sport in China from 1840 to 1937. The concepts of cultural imperialism and nationalism are central to this study, to understand how the two interacted in the process of the developme…
Sport in the Middle East
1. Our Games! The Pan-Arab Games (1953-1965) Luis Henrique Rolim Silva and Hans-Dieter Gerber 2. 'Pioneer of Olympism in the Middle East': Gabriel Gemayel and Lebanese Sport Andrea L. Stanton 3. Women in Management and Leadership in the Olympic Movement in Muslim Majority Countries: An Empirical Evaluation of Huntington's Clash of Civilisations Typology Shushu Chen and Ian Henry 4. The Sportification and Heritagisation of Traditional Turkish Oil …
The Policy and Practice on the Conservation of Hui (Muslim) Folk Sports Culture in China
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), governments at all levels, central and local, have made and implemented a series of policies and laws to conserve Hui (Muslim) sports culture, support and promote Hui sports, as well as protect and guarantee their sports rights. However, at the first stage of the PRC (1949–1979), the Chinese government utilized the conservation and development of Hui sports culture to enhance national co…
Soccer and Society in Modern Asia
Soccer, with the reputation of being ‘the first sport’, is arguably the most influential sport in the world. Soccer is also a social activity and art worth watching, discussing, and playing. The ri
The Development of Elite Disability Sport in China
This paper examines the use of elite disability sport by the Chinese Government to promote disability sport and to establish a disability culture and social environment in the Republic of China from 1983 to 2012. Bearing in mind that earlier Chinese society did not perceive the international disability movement as an educational process, the paper begins with an interpretation of why elite disability sport received the government’s strong support…
The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China
The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communist and Champions is the first book in English which examines in chronological order key issues in sport in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 2012 in the context of Chinese history, politics and society. It explores the complexity of Chinese sport including the sovietisation of Chinese sports policy and practice; the emergence of the ‘two Chinas’ issue; the Cold War, the Cultural Revolu…
The National Games and National Identity in the Republic of China, 1910–1948
The significance of sport, especially mega sport events, has been widely acknowledged as contributing to the development of nationalism and national identity.1 1. Alan Bairner, Sport, Nationalism and Globalization: European and North American Perspectives (New York: Suny Press, 2001). The use of the National Games by the nationalist government to promote Chinese nationalism and manage national identity in the Republic of China from 1910 to 1948 i…
Globalization and the Governance of Chinese Sports
This paper aims to explore the manifestations of globalization and sport governance in China through a lens of basketball. Specific focus is centred on the extent of the universalization of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) governance model in China and the adaptation from Chinese basketball. It argues that the vertical-centralized power allocation of Chinese basketball has prevented the NBA's governance model being fully assimilated an…
Projecting the ‘Chineseness’
Wushu, also known as Kung Fu, is a traditional Chinese martial art. It also symbolises \nthe strength of the Chinese and their pride in their history. Wushu came to be associated \nwith Chinese nationalism after China’s various defeats at the hands of foreign \nimperialist powers at the turn of the twentieth century. This relationship has been \nfurther strengthened through martial arts films. In the first half of the twentieth century, \nmartial…
After the Glory
Retirement has been identified as one of the major stress points encountered by athletes in the course of their sports careers. This article examines the relationship between the retired elite athletes' re-employment and the elite sports system in China. It discusses the re-employment prospects of retired elite athletes in China. The analysis then focuses on the issue of human capital, looking at the connection between human capital and employmen…
Sport, Nationalism and Orientalism
Prologue: the Origin of the Asian Games: Power and Politics 1. India and the Asian Games: From Infancy to Maturity 2. Indonesia and the Asian Games: Sport, Nationalism and the 'New Order' 3.The Politicisation of Sport: GANEFO - A Case Study 4. Thailand and the Asian Games: Coping with the Crisis 5. Iran and the Asian Games: the Largest Sports Event in the Middle East 6. South Korea and the Asian Games: the First Step to the World 7. Communist Chi…
Sport and Nationalism in China
This book examines the relationships between sport, nationalism and nation building in China. By exploring the last 150 years of Chinese history, it offers unparalleled depth and breadth of coverage and provides a clear grasp of Chinese sports nationalism from both macro and micro perspectives. Beginning with a discussion on the role of sport in the Qing Dynasty’s Self-Strengthening Movement (1861-1895), the book examines how sport contributed to…
Footbinding, Feminism and Freedom
Through the medium of women's bodies, Fan Hong explores the significance of religious beliefs, cultural codes and political dogmas for gender relations, gender concepts and the human body in an Asian setting
Post-Beijing 2008
1. Prologue: 'Middle Kingdom' Resurgent! Sports Dominance as Soft Power Politics on the Pacific Rim - Reflections on Rim Realpolitik J. A. Mangan China Post-Beijing 2008: Reflections from inside and Outside 2. Politics and the Olympic Transaction: Measuring China's Accomplishments Victor D. Cha 3. Chinese State Sports Policy: Pre- and Post-Beijing 2008 Fan Wei, Fan Hong and Lu Zhouxiang 4. Post-Beijing 2008 and Confucian Outreach in a New Game: C…
The Legacy
By applying Norbert Elias' figurational theory, this paper aims to discuss whether the Beijing Olympic Games had any significant long-term impact on grassroots sport participation in townships in China. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 140 subjects in selected townships and findings indicate that the Olympic Games fever only existed during the holding of Olympic Games in China and did not play a long-term impact on sport participati…
Beijing Ambitions
Fan Hong was Professor Mangan's PhD student from 1991 to 1994. As Professor Mangan's first IRCSSS PhD student she benefited enormously from his quality of supervision: speedy in response, meticulous in textual scrutiny. He was always available for discussion, continually encouraging and enthusiastic in approach. For an overseas student in an alien academic culture this was invaluable and much appreciated. Dr Fan Hong is now Reader in the Faculty …
Communist China
(2002). Communist China: Sport, Politics and Diplomacy. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 19, No. 2-3, pp. 319-342
Sport in China
(2002). Sport in China: Conflict between Tradition and Modernity, 1840s to 1930s. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 19, No. 2-3, pp. 189-212
China’s Sports Heroes
Sport has been of great importance to the construction of Chinese national consciousness during the past century. This article examines how China’s sport celebrities have played their part in nation building and identity construction. It points out that Chinese athletes’ participation in international sporting events in the first half of the twentieth century demonstrated China’s motivation to stay engaged with the world, and therefore led to the…
Projecting the ‘Chineseness’
Wushu, also known as Kung Fu, is a traditional Chinese martial art. It also symbolises \nthe strength of the Chinese and their pride in their history. Wushu came to be associated \nwith Chinese nationalism after China’s various defeats at the hands of foreign \nimperialist powers at the turn of the twentieth century. This relationship has been \nfurther strengthened through martial arts films. In the first half of the twentieth century, \nmartial…
The Professionalisation and Commercialisation of Football in China (1993–2013)
The professionalisation and commercialisation of football in China began in 1993, followed in 1994 by the launch of a league system that was modelled on the systems of Western countries. With the support of the market, football began to become self-sufficient and no longer reliant on government support. State-owned football clubs were replaced by an increasing number of privately owned and collectively owned clubs. Athletes started to play footba…
The National Games and National Identity in the Republic of China, 1910–1948
The significance of sport, especially mega sport events, has been widely acknowledged as contributing to the development of nationalism and national identity.1 1. Alan Bairner, Sport, Nationalism and Globalization: European and North American Perspectives (New York: Suny Press, 2001). The use of the National Games by the nationalist government to promote Chinese nationalism and manage national identity in the Republic of China from 1910 to 1948 i…
From Celestial Empire to Nation State
The history of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic clearly showed the close relationship between sport, nationalism and politics, and reflected the changes in Chinese society and Chinese people's view of their identity as well as their way of thinking. Sport had a great importance, not only for the construction of Chinese nationalism and national consciousness, but also for the eventual transformation of China from a celestial empire int…
Soccer
Since the 1980s football has become one of the fastest-growing female sports in China. Female players have forced their way into this traditional bastion of male identity and prestige with confidence, and in doing so, have projected radical and successful images of femininity. The national team obtained second place at the Third World Cup and won the Asian Cup and the Asian Games ten times. (Note: They are different competitions.) The Chinese pro…
Representing the New China and the Sovietisation of Chinese sport (1949–1962)
The Road to Modernization
(2002). The Road to Modernization: Sport in Taiwan. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 19, No. 2-3, pp. 343-365
Body · Experience · Imagination
In order to understand Chinese martial arts (CMA), people had better find out how native Chinese people picture these ancient arts. Maurice Halbwachs’s theory on collective memory is helpful to cognize the panorama of CMA. In the term of social framework, the contributors of the collective memory of CMA are mainly well-experienced inheritors, shallow-experienced mass practitioners and highly educated intellectuals. They respectively perceive mart…
The Legacy
By applying Norbert Elias' figurational theory, this paper aims to discuss whether the Beijing Olympic Games had any significant long-term impact on grassroots sport participation in townships in China. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 140 subjects in selected townships and findings indicate that the Olympic Games fever only existed during the holding of Olympic Games in China and did not play a long-term impact on sport participati…
Chinese State Sports Policy
This article provides an overview of Chinese sports policy and practice, the origin, the challenge and continuity, from the 1920s to the 2000s with particular emphasis on the post Beijing Olympics. It states that the development of Chinese sports policy has always been shaped by political, economic and educational requirements. Since the beginning of the reform and open-up in the late 1970s, elite sport received more support from the government w…
Epilogue - Into the Future
Prologue - Freeing Bodies
(2001). Prologue - Freeing Bodies: Heroines in History. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 1-6
A Martyr for Modernity
Qui Jin, at one level, was an oriental twentieth-century Judith, the mythical Jewish widow from Bethulia who cut off the head of Holofernes, the Assyrian general besieging the city, thus saving the Israelites from destruction. Qui Jin was, as Judith was, a self-reliant heroine who when others seemed 'helpless and demoralized undertook to save them single-handedly', or in her case virtually single-handedly. This, of course, was both her making and…
The female body, missionary and reformer
This article is part of the following collections: The International Journal of the History of Sport Best Article Prize: Early Winners (1984-2009)
Cultural Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Modernization of Physical Education and Sport in China, 1840–1949
This paper examines how missionary educational institutions and Young Men’s Christian Association physical education and sport programmes, in conjunction with the nation-building project of the Nationalist government, transformed and modernized physical education and sport in China from 1840 to 1937. The concepts of cultural imperialism and nationalism are central to this study, to understand how the two interacted in the process of the developme…
Will the ‘Iron Roses’ bloom forever? women's football in China
Since the 1980s football has become one of the fastest-growing female sports in China. Female players have forced their way into this traditional bastion of male identity and prestige with confidence, and in doing so, have projected radical and successful images of femininity. The national team obtained second place at the Third World Cup and won the Asian Cup and the Asian Games ten times. (Note: They are different competitions.) The Chinese pro…
Blue shirts, nationalists and nationalism
The Impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on China and the Olympic Movement
This paper aims to explore the impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on Chinese sport and Chinese society as well as the international Olympic Movement and Games. It asks three questions: What have been the purported impacts of the Beijing Games on China’s sport culture and practice? Did the 2008 Beijing Games contribute to the development of the Olympic movement? What, if any, social progress has been achieved through the Beijing Games? In an…
Oral History and Sport Historians in China
It was only in the last decade that oral history began to be practised by Chinese scholars of sport history. Only tens of peer-reviewed journal articles and a couple of monographs have been published so far. Most oral sport history projects were concerned with the heirs of endangered traditional martial arts. This limited focus is a result of the fact that studies of the social and cultural aspects of sport history in which oral methods are more …
The Historiography of Asian Sport
This article examines the historiography of Asian sport focusing mainly on Northeast Asia, including China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. A brief overview of the development of the discipline of sport history in different Asian nations is offered in the first section. The second section turns to the international development of Asian sport history, followed in the third section by a review of the role of the Asian Journal of Sport History & Cult…
After the Glory
Retirement has been identified as one of the major stress points encountered by athletes in the course of their sports careers. This article examines the relationship between the retired elite athletes' re-employment and the elite sports system in China. It discusses the re-employment prospects of retired elite athletes in China. The analysis then focuses on the issue of human capital, looking at the connection between human capital and employmen…
The female body, missionary and reformer
This article is part of the following collections: The International Journal of the History of Sport Best Article Prize: Early Winners (1984-2009)
Research in progress
Occident and orient
(1995). Occident and orient: the liberation of the female body and the reconstruction of femininity in the west and east. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 180-184
Enlightenment’ aspirations in an oriental setting
The Olympic movement in China
(1998). The Olympic movement in China: Ideals, realities and ambitions. Culture, Sport, Society: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 149-168
Not all bad! communism, society and sport in the great proletarian cultural revolution
(1999). Not all bad! communism, society and sport in the great proletarian cultural revolution: a revisionist perspective. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 47-71
Blue shirts, nationalists and nationalism
Prologue - Freeing Bodies
(2001). Prologue - Freeing Bodies: Heroines in History. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 1-6
Two Roads to China
A Martyr for Modernity
Qui Jin, at one level, was an oriental twentieth-century Judith, the mythical Jewish widow from Bethulia who cut off the head of Holofernes, the Assyrian general besieging the city, thus saving the Israelites from destruction. Qui Jin was, as Judith was, a self-reliant heroine who when others seemed 'helpless and demoralized undertook to save them single-handedly', or in her case virtually single-handedly. This, of course, was both her making and…
Communist China
(2002). Communist China: Sport, Politics and Diplomacy. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 19, No. 2-3, pp. 319-342
Sport in China
(2002). Sport in China: Conflict between Tradition and Modernity, 1840s to 1930s. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 19, No. 2-3, pp. 189-212
The Road to Modernization
(2002). The Road to Modernization: Sport in Taiwan. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 19, No. 2-3, pp. 343-365
Epilogue - Into the Future
Impacts of the “Grain for Green” Project on Rural Communities in the Upper Min River Basin, Sichuan, China
This article analyzes a project concerned with the conversion of agricultural land into forests and the impact on local communities in the upper Min River Basin in China. The aim of the project, called “Grain for Green” (Tui Geng Huan Lin), is to improve watershed conditions, enhance biodiversity, and conserve natural resources. Results from a participatory socioeconomic survey showed that the basic living standards of farmers were guaranteed by …
Will the ‘Iron Roses’ bloom forever? women's football in China
Since the 1980s football has become one of the fastest-growing female sports in China. Female players have forced their way into this traditional bastion of male identity and prestige with confidence, and in doing so, have projected radical and successful images of femininity. The national team obtained second place at the Third World Cup and won the Asian Cup and the Asian Games ten times. (Note: They are different competitions.) The Chinese pro…
Soccer
Since the 1980s football has become one of the fastest-growing female sports in China. Female players have forced their way into this traditional bastion of male identity and prestige with confidence, and in doing so, have projected radical and successful images of femininity. The national team obtained second place at the Third World Cup and won the Asian Cup and the Asian Games ten times. (Note: They are different competitions.) The Chinese pro…
Sensitive supervision
Sport in Asian Society
Prologue - Asian sport - from the recent past, J.A. Mangan imperial origins -Christian manliness, moral imperatives and pre-Sri Lankan playing fields -beginnings, J.A. Mangan imperial origins - Christian manliness, moral imperatives and pre-Sri Lankan playing fields - consolidation, J.A. Mangan celestials in touch -sport and the Chinese in colonial Singapore, N.G. Aplin and Quek Jon Jong sportsmanship - English inspiration and Japanese response -…
Epilogue
Beijing Ambitions
Fan Hong was Professor Mangan's PhD student from 1991 to 1994. As Professor Mangan's first IRCSSS PhD student she benefited enormously from his quality of supervision: speedy in response, meticulous in textual scrutiny. He was always available for discussion, continually encouraging and enthusiastic in approach. For an overseas student in an alien academic culture this was invaluable and much appreciated. Dr Fan Hong is now Reader in the Faculty …
Gender, Interculturalism and Discourses on Women's Leadership in the Olympic Movement
This paper addresses Western discourses relating to the role of women in the leadership of Olympic and elite sporting bodies in two contrasting non-western contexts, namely in selected Muslim countries (i.e. Member States of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference) and in the People's Republic of China. The two cases are selected because they reflect contrasting contexts in which the role of women is seen to be embedded in very different ideol…
From Celestial Empire to Nation State
The history of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic clearly showed the close relationship between sport, nationalism and politics, and reflected the changes in Chinese society and Chinese people's view of their identity as well as their way of thinking. Sport had a great importance, not only for the construction of Chinese nationalism and national consciousness, but also for the eventual transformation of China from a celestial empire int…
Chinese State Sports Policy
This article provides an overview of Chinese sports policy and practice, the origin, the challenge and continuity, from the 1920s to the 2000s with particular emphasis on the post Beijing Olympics. It states that the development of Chinese sports policy has always been shaped by political, economic and educational requirements. Since the beginning of the reform and open-up in the late 1970s, elite sport received more support from the government w…
Epilogue
The 13th July 2001 is an unforgettable day in the history of the Chinese Olympic Games. It was the date when China won the bid to host the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008. Years later, at 8pm on 8
Political science (41 works) · Law (38 works) · Sociology (37 works) · China (35 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (35 works) · Law (32 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (31 works) · History (28 works) · History (24 works) · Gender Studies (23 works)