Crossing Courts: Transnational Sports Migration and Collaboration in Greater China

Sports as cultural phenomena are central to a country’s soft power. This project investigates how athletes, coaches, and sport organizations navigate transnational collaboration within Greater China, emphasizing Hong Kong’s role as a strategic hub connecting mainland China and global sport labor markets. Using publicly available game footage, media archives, and organizational documents on Chinese and Hong Kong athletes, the project maps training regimes, institutional structures, and cross-border mobility patterns. Undergraduate researchers will assist with archival collection, video coding, and organizational analysis to produce a comparative dataset illuminating how sport shapes cultural influence and international collaboration in the region.

Essential Skills:
• Interest in Globalization, Culture, and Sport Reading knowledge of Chinese
• Basic speaking ability in mandarin and/or Cantonese
• Basic data collection (primary and secondary sources, news, articles) and organizing skills