中国的近代体育,是指1840年鸦片战争到1949年中华人民共和国成立前这一历史时期的体育。它虽然只有一百多年的历 史,但却是一个起着承上启下作用的重要阶段。
Modern Period (1840-1949)
Though covering a little more than a century, the Modern Period from 1840 when the Opium War began to 1949 when the People’s Republic of China was founded, was an important intermediate phase as far as the Chinese history of sport is concerned.
Handwriting by the great democratic revolutionary Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925). It reads:“ Make our nation and race storg.”
A passage from “A study of Physical Culture” by Mao Zedong (1893-1976) published in New Youth on April 1, 1917. He points out on the essay that equal attention should be paid to moral, intellectual and physical education.