“Eastern Sports and Western Bodies”, Daniel Elkind's essay on the 19th-century exercise fad of club swinging and its links with the history of colonialism, immigration, and capitalist culture: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/eastern-sports-and-western-bodies
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