This was a very interesting piece and one of my favorites so far. Moskowitz introduced many different aspects of Weigi in China rather than just going over the game and its history. Weiqi is a very important teaching utinsel for children, and its a highly placed game in Chinese society.Moskowitz moves from the importance of…

This weeks reading continued on the focus of Weiqi and Go, two similar games from China and Japan respectively. Whereas last week we covered the Chinese origin of Weiqi, this week the readings focused on the Japanese adoption of the game and how they grew and evolved not the game itself, but the culture surrounding…

Go Nation was a fairly enlightening, but, like with many things China, really depressing to read about. Perhaps the most striking thing to me about weigi‘s use in China was its integral place within the idea of masculinity. In that, weiqi, which reflected certain ideals of culture, was also a major cultural product of China, making it…

I really liked how this book was organized. It started out well by giving me a good perception of how gender roles in Asia –particularly China– work. It is interesting to think of how different cultures portray gender differences. The way women are portrayed in China as the emotional caretakers of the household, while it…

How does a game change with culture? We see this with Weiqi, but what other games follow this context? Chess followed the change from nation to nation. It adapted with the names of the pieces and the way pieces look on the board. Weiqi changes with the tides of change just like chess, but it…

When I first looked at the cover of this book I though, “woah, this is going to be brutal,” but then I started to understand why this is so interesting and relevant to our study of Games and Play. Moskowitz goes into the history of Weiqi, how the game was made unpopular until the Tang…