ABSTRACT
In the history of the modern Olympic movement, besides Europe and the United States, East Asia has been another very active region. The ‘Far Eastern Olympic Games (FECG)’, representing Western sports and bringing together Western civilization, had entered the Chinese people's vision. The era of its existence was precisely the period of the Republic of China's progress, where the concept of the state and the national consciousness in modern China emerged. Under the esteem of the Republic of China's national government, the social influence of ‘physical, intellectual and moral’ education had expanded, and its citizen gradually began acknowledging the long-term significance of sports to education and life. After the rise of the FECG in the 1910s, new ideas such as ‘competition’ and ‘cooperation’ gradually attracted the attention of Chinese citizens. In addition, contestants from China, Japan, and the Philippines competed in the FECG, which made the ‘national concept’ and ‘national consciousness’ increasingly stronger for the Chinese.
