Foreword; The Huis and Where They Came From; The Formation of the Hui Zu; The Fate of the Hui During and After the Qing Dynasty; Further Assimilation of Minorities and its effects of Muslims; How the Hui Zu Lives in China; Influential Muslim Personalities; Admiral Zheng He and His Achievements; Contributions of the Chinese Muslims; The Staunchness of the Chinese Muslims.
M. Ann Hall is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where she taught for over thirty years. She is the author of two previous books about Canadian women's sporting history.
# 1 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on
January 08, 2012
".the team which holds the most victories in the history of North
American sport. The Edmonton Grads were a women's basketball team
that held North America's attention for 25 years as the team
challenged preconceptions about gender and sport. Samantha Powers,
VUE Weekly, January 19-25, 2012
"Over the years, the feats of the amazing Grads faded from memory.
Few remember a team once heralded for many years as world
champions.... The wonderful new book by Ms. Hall, emeritus
professor at the University of Alberta, provides an informative and
richly detailed account of the women who were sports pioneers. It
is authoritative and deserving of a wide readership." Tom Hawthorn,
The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2012 [Full article at
http://bit.ly/Aj34Al]
"Three years before they were given the right to vote in Canada, a
team of female basketball players in Edmonton started a 25-year
journey of world-wide fame and victory, proving that women
certainly had the mental and physical capacity to do more than stay
prim and proper." Rebecca Medel, The Gateway, January 18, 2012
[Full article at
http://thegatewayonline.ca/article/view/grads_basketball]
# 2 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on
February 05, 2012
# 2 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on
February 26, 2012
"When a team wins 95% of its games, it earns a certain place in
sports history. "The Grads are Playing Tonight! The Story of the
Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club" discusses the
domination by the Edmonton Grads for a quarter century under the
guidance of J. Percy Page. Not only winning championships, they
traveled the world to continue their domination. "The Grads are
Playing Tonight!" is a strongly recommended pick..." Wisconsin
Bookwatch, February 2012
Hall's fine book brings the Grads to life - fierce competitors who
played with joyful élan. The book is also a compelling portrait of
the rough-and-tumble prairie city whose civic pride was awakened by
the Grads' exploits. Bruce Ward, Ottawa Citizen, February 19,
2012
# 6 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week on
April 23, 2012
"Almost like a fairytale, this hard-to-believe story about an
almost-invincible female basketball team and their committed coach,
J. Percy Page (later Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta), comes alive
in the pages of The Grads are Playing Tonight! Well-written and
engaging throughout its ten chapters, the book focuses on not only
the adventurous tales of the Grads, but also of Edmonton coming
into its own as an important city in Western Canada. In this
feel-good book there is something for everyone--sports fans,
history buffs, feminists, educators, scholars, politicians, and
readers who dare to dream the impossible. A story within many
stories, The Grads are Playing Tonight! reaffirms a city is more
than a place on the map--it is the people who live there and make
it home. The Grads are Playing Tonight! will continue to play
itself out in readers' heads long after they shut its covers." Jury
comments, Trade Non-Fiction Book Award, BPAA.
#7 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list for the week of June
24, 2012.
"Imagine that a Canadian sports team won ninety-six per cent of all
the games it ever played - over the course of twenty-five years;
that it sawed through its competition, going undefeated as it
captured four consecutive Olympic championships; that it was named
the best to ever play its sport, by the sport's inventor, no less.
Wouldn't that team be an icon in Canada? Well, there is such a
squad, but, unfortunately, the team is virtually unknown outside
its native Alberta. I'm talking about the Edmonton Grads - a
women's basketball team that dominated the sport between 1915 and
1940. Fortunately, M. Ann Hall has set out to cure our collective
national amnesia with her new book, The Grads are Playing
Tonight!... Hopefully, Hall's book will help spread the story
across Canada." Mark Reid, Canada's History Magazine, June-July
2012
"Reading "The Grads Are Playing Tonight!" was a nostalgic
experience for me.... M. Ann Hall's book is exactly how I remember
the Grads: full of grit, enthusiastic about life, inspiring and
proud. And they should be. The Grads were not simply amazing
basketball players. They were transformative women of their time...
They played in front of the largest sporting crowds of their time.
Hall is a sportswriter, so her writing style is compelling, and she
provides plenty of details on the team." Tracey Peter, Herizons,
Fall 2012
[The Grads Are Playing Tonight!] is the first comprehensive book
about the club. In an extensively researched, accessible, yet
detailed read, Hall reveals new insights into the team, the
organization, the coach (J. Percy Page), and the lives of the
players.... Hall also effectively places the story of the Grads
organization within the history of basketball in North America and
Europe, discussing the debates over gender-based rules, social and
medical opinion during the 1920s and 1930s about the appropriate
uses of women's bodies, and the international stage of women's
sport during this period... The Grads Are Playing Tonight! is an
important and long-awaited contribution to women's sport history
scholarship." Carly Adams, Great Plains Quarterly, Fall 2012
"Ann Hall's latest contribution to the cannon of sports history is
a well-written all encompassing examination of the legacy of the
Edmonton Commercial Graduates basketball team. The Edmonton
Commercial Graduates team (the "Grads") maintains the most
outstanding winning record in the history of basketball.... Hall's
thoughtful examination is extensive in scope, eloquently bringing
together primary and secondary resources to provide a masterful
collection of statistics, oral histories, photographs,
commentaries, and newspaper accounts. Her account is the first book
to provide an in-depth examination of the importance of the
Edmonton Commercial Graduates basketball team across several
domains of study: sports history, the sport of basketball, women's
sport history and sport organization/administration.... This book
would be a welcome addition to both the avid sport history scholar
and the general population. Hall's writing, explorations, and
explanations are highly accessible across disciplines and to those
wishing to simply learn more about this outstanding basketball
team." Christiane Job, Sport History Review 2012
"As might be expected from the pioneering author M. Ann Hall, this
is an important book that will provide the template for the
collective biography of many sports teams across a variety of
codes.... The seminal achievement of this book is to give the
individual Grads faces and voices. Although often based on
secondary, family sources, we begin to see where sport fitted into
their lives as young women. Just as importantly, we find out
what happened to many of them once they ceased to
play.... [T]he use of official photographs and snapshots; game
programmes; player memorabilia and other artefacts as integral
to the history of the team is what lifts this book above so
many.... The Grads Are Playing Tonight! is an inspiring
challenge to those of us who want to understand both elite
sport and its broader participatory culture." Jean Williams, Sport
in History, November 2013
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