Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Chinlone is an ancient Burmese ball game that is considered to be the national sport of Myanmar. What makes the sport truly unique is that it is not competitive in nature, and this is a fact that makes it different in comparison to other major ball games. The primary purposes of this paper is to further understand Chinlone’s history and how it is differentiated by other kickball games of Southeast Asia. During the colonization of Burma by the British, it began to adhere to the more ‘Western idea of sport’, something which was nonexistent in traditional Burmese society. Then, in the postcolonial period, it was used as a nation-building tool by the newly independent Burmese government to instill a sense of national pride and unity amongst the people of Myanmar, and it was during this period that the sport truly went through a process of ‘gamification’ where it was completely changed to resemble a modern sport.
DOI: 10.48048/ajac.2026.8
Authors: William J. Jones, Titipol Phakdeewanich, Augustin Adolfo Medina-Hardina
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4414947818
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