Andrew D. Morris

1970s-1980s "Chinese" Little League Baseball and its Discontents

Andrew Morris — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:33:59 PST

Mastery Without Enmity: Athletics, Modernity and the Nation in Early Republican China

Andrew D. Morris — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:12:14 PST

Review of Thomas W. Zeiler, Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire

Andrew Morris — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:12:08 PST

"I Believe You Can Fly": Basketball Culture in Postsocialist China

Andrew Morris — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:12:07 PST

Savages, Traitors, Budweiser, and a History of Globalization and Baseball in Taiwan

Andrew D. Morris — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:12:05 PST

Review of Beijing's Games: What the Olympics Mean to China by Susan Brownell

Andrew D. Morris — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:06:36 PDT

Taiwan: Baseball, Colonialism and Nationalism

Andrew D. Morris — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:17:24 PST

Baseball, History, the Local and the Global in Taiwan

Andrew D. Morris — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:17:21 PST

Native Songs and Dances: Southeast Asia in a Greater Chinese Sporting Community, 1920-48

Andrew D. Morris — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:17:17 PST

“I Can Compete!” China in the Olympic Games, 1932 and 1936

Andrew D. Morris — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:17:13 PST

Cultivating the National Body: A History of Physical Culture in Republican China

Andrew D. Morris — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:17:09 PST

This dissertation is a study of the role played by ideas and practices of physical culture (physical education, sports, recreation, physical fitness) in China over the first half of this century. My focus is on the connections between Chinese physical culture (in Chinese "tiyu," or literally "body-cultivation") and notions of the nation, modernity and a modern citizenry - namely, how the realm of tiyu served as a conduit for teaching Chinese citizens about modernity and the nation. The work is primarily based on Republican-era physical culture journals and bureaucratic reports, collected in libraries and archives in Hangzhou, Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai, and interviews with elderly ex-sports stars living in Taiwan and China.

"Fight for Fertilizer!" Excrement, Public Health, and Mobilization in New China

Andrew D. Morris — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:17:02 PST

Andrew Morris is a doctoral student in modern Chinese history at University of California, San Diego. In October, 1994 he presented a paper entitled "The Republic of Taiwan and the Failure of Qjng Centralization," at the Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Claremont, California. By the time this issue of the Joumaal is published, he will have presented another paper, "'Mastery Without Enmity': Tiyu (Athletics) in Early Republican China," at the West Coast Graduate Conference in Modern Chinese History, Berkeley, California, in April 1995.. Morris says, What I hoped to do in this paper was to show, in as graphic manner as possible, the concern of the Communist state far the most personal of details in driving the Chinese nation towards the singular goal of modernity in the Great Leap Forward. Public health and agricultural production campaigns both were based, very literally, in the excrement of the people of China. Comprehensive programs of mobilization and modernization could leave no stone unturned, and have tried to examine the ways in which state organs attempted to transform basic habits of daily life into acts of explicitly political and national significance."

Taiwan's History: An Introduction

Andrew D. Morris — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:16:58 PST

“How Could Anyone Respect Us?” A Century of Olympic Consciousness and National Anxiety in China

Andrew D. Morris — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:16:18 PST

Much of the history of China’s modern sports and physical culture program (tiyu) has been phrased, experienced, understood, and remembered as a gesture of national defense. Enemies have come, gone, and come again—the Western and Japanese imperialists, the Communists, the Nationalists, the footbound and weak, the ignorant and unhygienic, the decadent and materialistic, Taiwan, Falun Gong, and (again) U.S. and Japanese imperialists. All have served as forces that threatened China’s national body and had to be defeated with the rhythms, motions, disciplines, and ideologies of modern sport. Thus, over the last century, sport in China has served as a marker of political and social power, but it has also represented a profound national anxiety. This article investigates this realm and the tension between power and anxiety, and strength and fear, that has characterized so many of China’s political movements over its many governmental transitions since the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

'All China Has Muscles Now, And We Know How To Use Them': Nationalist and Communist Sporting Cultures During Wartime, 1937-45

Andrew D. Morris — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:25:52 PST

To Make the Four Hundred Million Move: The Late Qing Dynasty Origins of Modern Chinese Sport and Physical Culture

Andrew D. Morris — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:49:38 PDT

There is little doubt that, after a century's exposure, Chinese have absorbed and understand quite clearly the greater meanings of the realm of sport-the connections between competitive athletic endeavor, imperialist bluster, and economic standing in the world community. This article is an exploration of the late Qing Dynasty origins of this modern global culture of physical culture and sport.

Review of Japan, Korea, and the 2002 World Cup by John Horne

Andrew D. Morris — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:49:16 PDT

The Olympic Decathlete Who Became a Shaman: C.K. Yang and the Masculine Body in Modern Taiwan

Andrew D. Morris — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:48:50 PDT