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This is an examination of how physical education changed the way women saw their bodies in late Qing China. Hong sees cultural value as the primary battleground against footbinding, but moves physical education into the forefront. As long as footbinding was seen as essential to a woman’s social status, no amount of outside pressure would be able to eradicate it. By introducing physical education that emphasized competition, Hong believes that missionaries introduced a new value to Chinese women’s bodies, particularly bringing “to Chinese women the normality of unmutilated limbs”. Hong argues that competitive physical education forced Confucian society to reevaluate the role of women that eventually led to the women’s physical liberation.

Hong does not go so far as to say that physical education was the only factor, or even the dominant factor, in women’s improved status in society. She spends a great deal of time discussing other changes in China caused by its blatant weakness in the face of western powers and Japan. She argues that physical education was only one aspect of those changes and yet it was the one most directly influential on women’s physical independence in general and footbinding in specific. She gives nearly full credit to western missionaries for the introduction of a competitive physical education program. She largely leaves Japanese influence out of the equation. This omission is understandable because the Japanese programs did not have a high emphasis on women. Still, it is curious that the Chinese based their physical education program in schools on the Japanese model, even if the Chinese model involved women more.
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