Transnational Contexts of Culture, Gender, Class, and Colonialism in Play: Video Games in East Asia

Introduction
Part I. Gamer Culture 1. Bullet Hell: The Globalized Growth of Danmaku Games and the Digital Culture of High Scores and World Records; Mark Johnson 2. The Contents Production Fields and Doujin Game Developers in Japan: Creation of Various Game Expressions driven by Non-economic Rewards; Nobushige Hichibe 3. From Pioneering Amateur to Tamed Co-operator: Tamed Desires and Untamed Resistance in the Cosplay Scene in China; Anthony Fung Part II. Gender and Class 4. Making Masculinity: Articulations of Gender and Japaneseness in Japanese RPGs and Machinima; Lucy Glasspool 5. Living the Simple Life: Defining Agricultural-simulation Games through Empire; Fan Zhang Part III. Colonialism and Transnationalism 6. Virtual Colonialism: Japan's Others in SoulCalibur; Rachael Hutchinson 7. A Chinese Cyber Diaspora: Contact and Identity Negotiation in a Game World; Holin Lin and Chuen-Tsai Sun List of Contributors Index