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…

This week’s reading about weiqi and Go did a far better job at introducing me to weiqi and more importantly its importance in East Asian countries. I especially liked the rather short segment from p. 42-47 that discussed weiqi as imagery for war and the Wuxia narration that was mentioned. I found it amazing how…

Moskowitz makes the argument that weiqi serves many purposes in China. It serves several religious agendas, it relates to both traditional and modern society, all while attributing to nationalist and globalist ideologies.  The most interesting manifestation of weiqi, is what Moskowitz called the “the world of weiqi” (p. 69).  While Moskowitz makes a very interesting argument…

Player’s choice is incredibly important to any game especially if you are looking for replay value. For me player’s choice is most prominent when I am playing a Fire Emblem game but the more I think about it player’s choice is present in nearly every game I play to some degree. Player’s choice isn’t only…

I found the Journal of American Oriental Society to be the most interesting. The way that the game of Wei-Chi was so often used to symbolize life issues was very indicative of the broad acceptance, and importance of the game in Chinese society. I also found it really interesting to learn that the game of…