Responding to globalisation: The case of elite artistic gymnastics in China

Zheng, Jinming; Tan, Tien-Chin; Bairner, Alan

doi:10.1177/1012690217730679

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“…This work has examined the development of football game identity and the emergence of transnational sport corporations (Giulianotti & Robertson, 2004); fanship (Giulianotti & Robertson, 2006) migration of football players (Giulianotti & Robertson, 2007); and the development of Asian sport (Giulianotti & Robertson, 2006. With regard to gymnastics, researchers have recently adopted the glocalisation perspective to examine the sportization of parkour 2 in New Zealand and Italy (Puddle, Wheaton, & Thorpe, 2018;Sterchele & Ferrero Camoletto, 2017), and Chinese sport and gymnastics governing bodies' reactions to gymnastics developments since the 1950s (Zheng, Tan, & Bairner, 2017). This latter research demonstrates how Chinese gymnastics predominantly developed in relation to USSR gymnastics.…”

Section: Glocalisation Theory and Wagmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women’s Artistic Gymnastics

Lord¹,

Stewart

2020

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This chapter examines the development of WAG systems since the fall of Communism in 1989.Drawing on Robertson's (1994; glocalisation theory, we examine how six case countries -Australia, Brazil, Italy, Romania, Russia, and The Netherlandsdeveloped in relation to the global context of state-managed (Communist) WAG system thinking and local conditions and events. Our results show that Romanian and Russian WAG was significantly interrupted by the fall of Communism and today still need to recover to re-invent and stabilise their systems.Australia was earliest and has most prominently invested in elite WAG through the national government's implementation of a state-managed elite sport. Their system and performance success has, however, experienced challenges that have caused a number of changes. Brazil, Italy, and The Netherlands have not benefitted from extensive national elite sport systems, and their governing bodies have less consistently invested in WAG. Italy and The Netherlands have, however, adopted creative measures to develop WAG, particularly through popularisation activities. Italy stands out as an example of most effective local sustainable development, having achieved performance success, acquired funds for their elite operations, and importantly, not suffered allegations of abuse. In combination, the decline of Communist WAG and growth of Western successes has de-centred the East and diversified this sport's competitive landscape.

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Section: Glocalisation Theory and Wagmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women’s Artistic Gymnastics

Lord¹,

Stewart

2020

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“…These include China, where elite sport is highly politicised and government organisations are almost omnipotent (Zheng, Lau, Chen, Dickson, De Bosscher & Peng, 2018). Elite sport in China is an integral public policy domain of the government (Zheng, Tan & Bairner, 2017). Accordingly, theoretical perspectives from the public policy literature are utilised to provide the theoretical foundation.…”

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Policy transfer in elite sport development: the case of elite swimming in China

Tan

Zheng

Dickson

2019

European Sport Management Quarterly

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Research question: This article explores policy transfer in the context of (non-professional) elite sport development through a detailed examination of Chinese elite swimming organisations since the early 2000s. The analysis is structured according to the five main aspects of policy transfer: rationale, actors, sources, elements and content, and conditioning factors. Research methods: Data were collected from 15 semi-structured interviews with officials, coaches and scholars. These interviews were complemented by a content analysis of official and semi-official documents from both relevant sports governing bodies and influential Chinese media. Results and findings: The major findings are that (1) the most important factors propelling the policy transfer were poor performances at major international sports events and a desire to be successful at the home Olympic Games; (2) the key policy transfer actors included government 'insiders' and foreign experts; (3) Australia was the main source of new policy because of a combination of political, geographical, economic and sport-specific factors; (4) the policy content transferred focused mainly on ideas, methods and techniques rather than deeper-level structures and ideology; and (5) source nations sought to constrain the policy transfer process.

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“…More recently, Jinming Zheng and Xiaoqian Hu's works have contributed to the existing literature on sport in China. For example, Zheng and Chen (2016) explored China's strategic approaches to elite sport success and sport categorisation and prioritisation, Zheng (2016, in press) and Zheng, Tan and Bairner (2017) examined the detailed development and policy approaches in three sports/disciplines in China: cycling, swimming and artistic gymnastics. Hu and Henry (2016) focused on the development of Chinese elite sport discourse in the lead-up to and in the aftermath of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, while Hu and Henry (2017) applied discourse analysis to investigate the reform and maintenance of Juguo Tizhi (the whole country support for the elite sport system), a fundamental underpinning of China's significant elite sport success.…”

Section: Literature Review: Sport In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Sport policy in China (Mainland)

Zheng

Chen

Tan

et al. 2018

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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Sport has been an integral part of the Chinese government's policy agenda since the People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded in 1949. The policy prominence of sport has been further elevated in the last two to three decades, as indicated by the steady increase in elite sport success, the hosting of sports events such as the Olympic Games, China's increased global engagement with sport organisations and the developments in sport professionalisation and commercialisation. This article reviews China's sport policy at different periods since its inception, analyses the rationale for, and form and extent of, government intervention, presents the sport structure in China and identifies the dominant characteristics of its sport policy. In addition, various sport policy areas, ranging from elite sport and mass sport, to sports mega-events, and sports professionalisation are discussed, and their relative policy significances are compared. The degree of balance between these areas and policy priorities are thus defined. Finally, emerging trends and issues are introduced.

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Responding to globalisation: The case of elite artistic gymnastics in China

Cited by 16 publications

References 27 publications

Women’s Artistic Gymnastics

Women’s Artistic Gymnastics

Policy transfer in elite sport development: the case of elite swimming in China

Sport policy in China (Mainland)

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