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Video Gaming and Interactive Storytelling in Digital Taiwan and Beyond

History Plays Back

Av Chia-rong Wu

Del i serien Asian Visual Cultures

2467 kr

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This book explores how video games transform history, fantasy, Indigeneity, trauma, and romance into interactive narratives, sparking transnational dialogues across game studies, area studies, and digital humanities. By highlighting the complex ways in which reality and fantasy are continuously negotiated through code and play, this book urges area studies to seriously consider digital participatory cultures while simultaneously challenging game studies to address translocal narratives and postcolonial complexities. It connects research communities across North America, Europe, Australasia, and East Asia, enhancing our global understanding of what it means to be a player, a creator, and a historical subject in the digital age. This book is written for scholars, graduate students, and industry professionals engaged in game studies, Asian studies, media theory, digital humanities, and related interdisciplinary fields.
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Chia-rong Wu is an Associate Professor (Reader) in the School of Language, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

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“The book Sinophone game studies has been waiting for! Wu’s study fills a big hole in the field by providing a broad-ranging examination of gaming genres and histories linked to the crucial digital nexus of Taiwan, as well as a fresh theoretical approach to understanding the role of video games in the world today. Wu argues that games are a highly evolved form of literature, made more powerful by their interactive nature. From the Three Kingdoms and mutations of the Monkey King to contemporary horror and indigenous folklore, history repeatedly acquires new cultural force, “playing back” through the actions of gamers and reshaping heritage, memory, and identity along the way. A vital and inspiring new study.”Heather Inwood, University of Cambridge“Video Gaming and Interactive Storytelling in Digital Taiwan and Beyond provides a timely and well-researched account of the way Taiwan has played a critical role in the development of video games in Sinophone cultures -- this work will be quite useful for scholars of video game studies and media studies, as well as anyone interested in how video games shape, carry, and circulate culture from the contexts in which they are developed.”Douglas Eyman, George Mason University

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