Transpacific, Undisciplined - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0295752750 ISBN 13 : 9780295752754

Editeur : University of Washington Press, 2024

Synopsis

From ancient gameboards to Honor of Kings, games as cultural agentsGames 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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Lily Wong is associate professor of literature at American University. She is the author of Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness (Columbia, 2018) and co-editor of Transpacific, Undisciplined (UWP, 2024).

Christopher B. Patterson is associate professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games (New York University Press, 2020) and Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (2018). Under his pen name Kawika Guillermo, he has published Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir (Duke University Press, 2023), Stamped: an anti-travel novel (Westphalia Press, 2018), and All Flowers Bloom (Westphalia Press, 2020).

Chien-ting Lin is an associate professor in the English Department at National Central University in Taiwan. He received his PhD in literature and cultural studies from University of California, San Diego, and has published articles in English and Chinese in several journals, including Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Review of International American Studies, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0295752750
• ISBN 13: 9780295752754
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Éditeur: Wong Lily, Patterson Christopher B., Lin Chien-ting
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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