| （1.School of Physical Education，Shandong Normal University，Jinan 250014，China；2.Shandong Sport University，Jinan 250102，China) Abstract: From the perspectives of “world”, “nation” and “society”, the authors interpreted the complicated history of generation and development of modern Chinese sports, and by collating and studying abundant historical data, the au-thors revealed the following findings: “world” contains our ethical imagination about the world of existence experience, which shaped and affected the inception and occurrence of new national sports in the late Qing dynasty to a great ex-tent, containing such a particular political imagination as making China powerful and its people rich, contained in modern Chinese sports; “nation” represents the awakening of national consciousness of the Chinese nationals in crises and dilemmas, which gives a tint of “nationalization” to the rising and developing of sports, and is fully embodied via the ideology and practice of militarized national sports; “society” means the awakening of people’s self consciousness and the transfer of sports to the folk, the lightening of political colors and the focus on daily life become the themes of sports development in this period, declaring the return of values sports should have as sports.
Key words: sports history；new national sports；militarized national sports；sports nationalization；sports socialization |
