Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures: Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures

Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures

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Title Page
Copyright
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
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

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