Social Sports Studies (1912-1937)

After Opium War, west-modern sports swarmed into China along with west culture.As one of treaty ports, Shanghai became the window gradually by what the west culture swarmed into. Therefore, Shanghai also became one of the earliest places where the modern sports carried out.Under the influence of colony and the experience since1840, Chinese contacted the modern sport. Through sport-trained by Y.M.C.A. and schooling, Chinese people began to learn western sports and tried hard to dig national sports. Those citizens who loved sports in Shanghai tried hard to break the complexion that the foreigner controlled, and in the 1920s, this aim came true.Modern sports budded when Shanghai became a treaty port, and finally prospered during the 1920s and 1930s. During this period, many parts contributed to the development of sports, such as the improvement of physical education, Sports competition mechanism, the establishment of the system of sports administration, laws and regulations respecting sports had been enacted, various types of professional sports organizations formed, sports books and periodicals issued, promoted the development of sports in Shanghai in this period.The development of social sports in the Chinese regions of Shanghai during this period became a bright spot. During this period, people in different occupations participated in sports in a different way, Sports has become an important part of their lives; different items of sports held frequently enriched the lives of the people of Shanghai, and cultivated a large number of sports fans. They watched sports competitions as part of life.Physical culture as a kind of culture, it is not the core-culture in both the west and the east, so two kinds of physical cultures could develop together and form a new physical culture in Shanghai, also in other cities of China. From 1927 to 1937,the social sports in Shanghai was unprecedented development, a strong atmosphere of sports was formed. Sport has gradually become a fashionable lifestyle. Sports in Shanghai was showing unprecedented prosperity...