Games & play in Chinese & Sinophone cultures / / edited by Li Guo, Douglas Eyman, and Hongmei Sun.
"Weiqi (aka go), one of the world's oldest board games, originated in China, and a variety of card, dice, board, sport, and performance games developed over the millennia, up to today's thriving digital game industry. In exploring games and practices of play across social and historic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Seattle : : University of Washington Press,, 2024. ©2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
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| Summary: | "Weiqi (aka go), one of the world's oldest board games, originated in China, and a variety of card, dice, board, sport, and performance games developed over the millennia, up to today's thriving digital game industry. In exploring games and practices of play across social and historical contexts, this volume reflects on representations of gender, class, materiality, and imaginations of the nation in Chinese and Sinophone contexts. Among the topics explored are rock carvings of board games, weiqi cultures, scholars' and courtesans' games, gambling, games based on literature, internet-game addiction, video-game politics, and appropriation of Chinese culture in video games"-- |
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| ISBN: | 0295752416 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Li Guo, Douglas Eyman, and Hongmei Sun. |