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OverviewFrom ancient gameboards to Honor of Kings, games as cultural agents Games as global and connected phenomena have been examined in the rising scholarly field of game studies, but relatively little has been published on the history of games and gaming in China. Weiqi (a.k.a. Go), one of the world’s oldest board games, originated in China; a variety of Chinese card, dice, board, sport, and performance games have been developed over the millennia; and China is quickly becoming a major player in the contemporary digital game industry. In exploring games and practices of play across social and historical contexts, this volume examines representations of gender, class, materiality, and imaginations of the nation in Chinese and Sinophone contexts, while addressing ways in which games inhabit, represent, disrupt, or transform cultural and social practices. Both analog and computer games are represented in analyses that draw connections between the traditional and the modern and between local or regional and higher-order economic, cultural, and political structures. Among the topics explored are rock carvings of board games, weiqi cultures, scholars’ and courtesans’ games, gambling, games based on literature, video-game politics, and appropriation of Chinese culture in video games. The open access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Li Guo , Douglas Eyman , Hongmei SunPublisher: University of Washington Press Imprint: University of Washington Press ISBN: 9780295752402ISBN 10: 0295752408 Pages: 302 Publication Date: 02 July 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Timeline of Dynasties Introduction: Gameplay in Chinese and Sinophone Worlds Li Guo, Douglas Eyman, and Hongmei Sun 1. Groups on the Grid: Weiqi Cultures in Song-Yuan-Ming China Zach Berge-Becker 2. Newly Discovered Game Board Rock Carvings in Hong Kong: Apotropaic Symbolism or Ludic Culture? César Guarde-Paz 3. Splendid Journeys: The Board Games of a Late Qing Scholar Rania Huntington 4 Exclusive Pleasures on the Cheap: Yuan Dynasty Sanqu Songs on Courtesan Kickball Patricia Sieber 5. Games in Late Ming and Early Qing Erotic Literature Jie Guo 6. The Courtesans' Drinking Games in The Dream in the Green Bower Li Guo 7. Ghostly Dicing: Gambling Games and Deception in Ming-Qing Short Stories Jiayi Chen 8. Playing Journey to the West Hongmei Sun 9. How China's Young ""Internet Addicts"" Gamify the Disciplinary Treatment Camp Yichen Rao 10. Gaming while Aging: The Ludification of Later Life in Pokémon GO Keren He 11. The Video Game Chinese Parents and Its Political Potentials Florian Schneider 12. The Public Gaming Discourse of Honor of Kings in China Jiaqi Li 13. Translation and Chinese Culture in Video Games Douglas Eyman Glossary Bibliography List of Contributors Index"ReviewsAuthor InformationLi Guo is professor of Chinese and Asian studies at Utah State University and author of Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction. Douglas Eyman is associate professor and director of writing and rhetoric programs at George Mason University. He is author of Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice. Hongmei Sun is associate professor of Chinese at George Mason University and author of Transforming Monkey: Adaptation and Representation. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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