碩士 / 國立中央大學 / 歷史研究所 / 97 / Thesis Abstract
This thesis mainly uses the North-China Herald to look into the development of foreign sports in Shanghai and uses the public settlement’s English population as its main focus. In addition to the North-China Herald, other publications, personal documents, and historical documents such as Social Shanghai are used. From 1900 to 1911, foreign sports were in its maturity with many different events and large groups of spectators, all under the influence of high levels of development. Of these events, shooting and horse racing were the most common and popular in the foreign sporting community. The foreign community in Shanghai made use of the system of social clubs and organizations to gather together, leading to the development of the many sporting events. However, the acceptance into such clubs had many restrictions, many on the basis of nationality or class, making it difficult for outsiders to join. Besides social clubs, professions and sporting events also had a large amount of selectivity involved. In the sports section of the North-China Herald, one can often see the racing and shooting events of the Shanghai Volunteer Army. The army attended each event without loss of strength and provided impetus for the instability and multivariate development of the foreign sporting community in Shanghai. The army may be said to be one of the most important connections in the development of sports in late Qing Dynasty Shanghai. Regarding the development of shooting as a sport, there were many social clubs and associations, including the volunteer army, which made contributions. The Shanghai Rifle Club, one such club, led from the Ministry of Works, hoping that by relaxing the restrictions on the qualifications of members, the general populace would be able to shoot. Using sports as a way to promote health, they reached the purpose of increasing people’s ability of self-defense and cultivating good habits.
As for the aspect of the competitions of the social clubs, it could be said that the spectators were just as essential as the actual competitors. An example of this can be seen in horse racing where the participants, spectators, horse owners, clubs and related employees all formed an intricate structure. In addition to the well-known Shanghai Race Club, there were other horse-racing clubs established in the settlement--these with the funds from the Chinese. This was the first instance of Chinese attaining equality in participation opportunities in Shanghai’s sporting community. Before this, many social clubs refused Chinese the rights to join as club members or participate in competitions. The sprouting of Chinese sports and the slowly-appearing phenomenon of Chinese-Western concourse became a developing trend.
Besides putting into practice the sports of their homelands in China, foreign residents in Shanghai also took actions to suit the local conditions, creating new sport events. This is the only lasting cultural influence of the foreign residents on Shanghai’s sporting habits. Overall, this thesis describes how the foreign residents of Shanghai employed sporting events to assemble together themselves and the will of the people, while simultaneously creating a social network in the settlement.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/097NCU05493010 |
| Creators | Chia-pei Tang, 湯佳珮 |
| Contributors | Chen-main Wang, 王成勉 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 121 |
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