| （School of Physical Education，Soochow University，Suzhou 215021，China) Abstract: The author reviewed the issue of Japanese physical education teaching in China in the late Qing dynasty. Along the longitudinal historical sequence, the author divided Japanese physical education teaching in China into 3 stages: 1) emerging stage, the author mainly discussed Japanese physical education teaching in official schools and police schools in the early period; 2) heyday stage, the author respectively discussed Japanese physical education teaching in normal schools, ordinary schools and female schools; 3) decline stage, the author believed that impacts brought by Chinese students who studied in Japan and returned to China, Japanese physical education’s own factors, and the change of Japanese government’s policies for China etc, were main reasons that caused the decline of Japa-nese physical education teaching in China.
Key words: sports history；physical education teaching；Japan；late Qing dynasty |
