New publication: "Producing Socialist Bodies: Transnational Sports Networks and Athletes in 1950s China"

Amanda Shuman has a chapter in the recently-published book, "Revolutionary Transformations: The People's Republic of China in the 1950s" (Cambridge University Press, April 2023). The chapter, Producing Socialist Bodies Transnational Sports Networks and Athletes in 1950s China https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/revolutionary-transformations/producing-socialist-bodies/9DF839088514866266F62A538C959CF2, discusses how ethnically Chinese Indonesian athletes were recruited to China in the early 1950s and, by tracing the networks within which they were embedded, argues that China’s national sports development was a thoroughly transnational project.