Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures
Eyman, Douglas / Sun, Hongmei / Guo, Li
Games 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 di...