"Sports Saving State": The Sports Thoughts And Its Conflict In 1930s

In the 1930s, when China sank deeper in its national crisis, many concemed and anxious patriots turned to the sports field, expecting to find the very reason and elements in the nation's physical culture that prevented China from rejuvenation in the overall national strength. Hence, they aired opinions at various occasions and in numerous articles and books, which gave birth to a unique boom of many schools of thought on China's physical culture and sport in the 1930s, where "all flowers were in bloom and all schools of thought contending."The concrete manifestations of the phenomenon are the ideology of natural P. E., the ideology of sports militarization, the ideology of populizing P. E., the ideology of traditional P.E., the ideological trend of P.E. saving the nation, two ideological arguments on P.E. ---- the struggle on "the earth ocean" P.E.and on natural P.E. and P.E. militarization. Although these P.E. ideology contents have differences, two arguments is also various, because they all appeared under the national disaster background, had the same time soil, therefore, in them passes through the identical subject-----"to save the nation", is "the P.E. saves the nation" in the P.E. ideology by the expression. In the field of P.E ,it might be said the clearest words, it was "a red line" passed through the 30's in ideology of P.E.This article divides into three chapters. The first chapter introduced the 30's most popular ideologies of P. E, and elaborated the origin and main content of them, in particular the essence of "the P. E saves the nation"; The second chapter elaborated the ideological trend of mainstream at that time, namely "the P. E saves the nation", as well as its classification and influence; The third chapter introduced the two biggest ideologies of P. E which affected most, and the analysis of each argument's origin, focal point and the influence.