A Brief History of Modern Chinese Sports

Author: Cui Lequan
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Publish Date: 1998-01-01
Features: Modern Chinese sports have only a history of over 100 years. Despite the turbulent social conditions and the hardships endured by the people during this period, it was a stage of significant changes in the connotation and appearance of Chinese sports. In these 100 years, Western sports began to be introduced to China and gradually spread and developed; in these 100 years, traditional Chinese sports struggled to advance in an unstable environment; and it was also in these 100 years, through the mutual exclusion and absorption of these two different sports systems, that Chinese sports completed its modernization journey. This is the magnificent yet arduous history of the development of modern Chinese sports that has been left for people by Chinese sports during its 100 years of modern history.