Li 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.

"Games and Play in Chinese & Sinophone Cultures is a pioneering work . . . By informing readers about and interrogating ludic China, historical and contemporary, the chapters constitute a significant contribution to game studies and to Chinese studies."

• AcknowledgmentsTimeline of Dynasties Introduction: Gameplay in Chinese and Sinophone WorldsLi Guo, Douglas Eyman, and Hongmei Sun 1. Groups on the Grid: Weiqi Cultures in Song-Yuan-Ming ChinaZach Berge-Becker 2. Newly Discovered Game Board Rock Carvings in Hong Kong: Apotropaic Symbolism or Ludic Culture? César Guarde-Paz3. Splendid Journeys: The Board Games of a Late Qing ScholarRania Huntington 4 Exclusive Pleasures on the Cheap: Yuan Dynasty Sanqu Songs on Courtesan KickballPatricia Sieber 5. Games in Late Ming and Early Qing Erotic LiteratureJie Guo 6. The Courtesans' Drinking Games in The Dream in the Green BowerLi 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 Rao10. Gaming while Aging: The Ludification of Later Life in Pokémon GO Keren He11. The Video Game Chinese Parents and Its Political PotentialsFlorian Schneider 12. The Public Gaming Discourse of Honor of Kings in ChinaJiaqi Li 13. Translation and Chinese Culture in Video GamesDouglas Eyman Glossary Bibliography List of Contributors Index

Li 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.

"Games and Play in Chinese & Sinophone Cultures is a pioneering work . . . By informing readers about and interrogating ludic China, historical and contemporary, the chapters constitute a significant contribution to game studies and to Chinese studies."

• AcknowledgmentsTimeline of Dynasties Introduction: Gameplay in Chinese and Sinophone WorldsLi Guo, Douglas Eyman, and Hongmei Sun 1. Groups on the Grid: Weiqi Cultures in Song-Yuan-Ming ChinaZach Berge-Becker 2. Newly Discovered Game Board Rock Carvings in Hong Kong: Apotropaic Symbolism or Ludic Culture? César Guarde-Paz3. Splendid Journeys: The Board Games of a Late Qing ScholarRania Huntington 4 Exclusive Pleasures on the Cheap: Yuan Dynasty Sanqu Songs on Courtesan KickballPatricia Sieber 5. Games in Late Ming and Early Qing Erotic LiteratureJie Guo 6. The Courtesans' Drinking Games in The Dream in the Green BowerLi 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 Rao10. Gaming while Aging: The Ludification of Later Life in Pokémon GO Keren He11. The Video Game Chinese Parents and Its Political PotentialsFlorian Schneider 12. The Public Gaming Discourse of Honor of Kings in ChinaJiaqi Li 13. Translation and Chinese Culture in Video GamesDouglas Eyman Glossary Bibliography List of Contributors Index