Before the outbreak of the second Sino-Japanese war and after the north-south reunification, the Chinese press briefly thrived during the
Republican Era (1912-1949). This bloom was reflected in the increase in the number of news publications and in the emergence of professional
news organizations and specialized news reports. By analyzing reports between 1933 and 1935 (a distressing period wherein China was in a
state of national calamity) in the sports section of the World Daily News, this study illustrates how Chinese sports news was transformed to attain
and exude a completely different social significance. Whereas sports news signified the professionalization and popularization of meaning
throughout the development of American and British newspapers, the Chinese counterparts were remolded as a nationalist symbol of glory and
vicissitudes.