Tag: ASP Prime

• China and Big Surfing

  

  “Sports themselves are not political, but they have important political functions. The close connection between sports and national identity takes different forms in different countries at various stages of development, and in China it has special significance. The phrase ‘a weak country has no sports’ has particularly painful associations for Chinese people [owing to China’s…

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  January 5, 2012

  Deconstructing Surfing, Politics, Surfing

  ASP, ASP Prime, Big Surfing, billabong, boycott, China, Cori Schumacher, Fernando Aguerre, Hainan, isa, liu xiaobo, no enemies, no hatred, quiksilver, SIMA, surfing, wanning, World Games