Generative History of Sport: Disciplinary Reflections on the "Sports History" Based on the Development of Textbooks
The development of textbooks for sports history should, under the guidance of historical materialism, grasp the historical process and historical context of the generation of sport, clarify the historical motives and historical conditions of the generation of sport, and analyze the historical role and historical significance of the generation of sport, so as to produce a generative history that is in line with the nature of the discipline. However, in the existing textbooks on sports history, there is a tendency that should not be over-looked:the physical education attributes of sports history are overemphasized, and under the influence of the preconceived notion of sports the investigation and compilation of physical activities or physical behaviors have unconsciously weakened the real history of sports. In view of this, the current reflections on the discipline of "sports history" should take the textbooks of "sports history" as a starting point to be consciously oriented to historiography. Based on the historiographic ideas and the new historiographical theories, the deficiencies or shortcomings in textbooks should be reevaluated from the dimensions of textbook style and historical logic, historical time and key nodes, historical space and world history, new historiographic views and historical questioning.