Nationalism and national identity in Taiwanese baseball.

From: Nine | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

When the Taiwanese first saw the Japanese tossing and hitting baseballs, they were fearful and perplexed. The ball was so hard and solid they dubbed the game bangqiu (baseball) as caiqiu (wooden-ball), thinking the activity might cause a fatality. (1) Heavily influenced by Confucianism, which valued academic study and shunned physicality or martial prowess, Taiwanese people had little regard for physical exercise. The Japanese occupiers were amazed that the Taiwanese had no folk dancing, which seemed to exist in every other nation in the world. Nor did they have modern sports. (2) ...

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