(School of History and Culture,Northeast Normal University,Changchun 130024,China) Abstract: The author probed into the theoretical source, academic course and core connotations of “global history of sports”, and drew the following conclusions: “global history of sports” is the product of the concept of “global history” combining with “sports history” research practice; different from country differed “foreign sports history” and “sports globalization” with “west-centered theory” tendency, “global history of sports” aims at analyzing those transregional, transnational and transcultural sports communication activities in world history and their multidimen-sional social and cultural influence from the perspective of diversified civilization; “global history of sports” re-search oriented by “interaction” will open a new perspective for observing human sports and social life changes, it is conducive to thinking such an issue as “human destiny community” in the sports culture area. Key words: global history of sports;sports interaction;west-centered theory;human destiny community |