Transnational Contexts of Culture, Gender, Class, and Colonialism in Play

1. Introduction
Alexis Pulos, S. Austin Lee Lee

Part I. Part I Gamer Culture

2. Bullet Hell: The Globalized Growth of Danmaku Games and the Digital Culture of High Scores and World Records
Mark Johnson

3. Content Production Fields and Doujin Game Developers in Japan: Non-economic Rewards as Drivers of Variety in Games
Nobushige Hichibe, Ema Tanaka

4. From Pioneering Amateur to Tamed Co-operator: Tamed Desires and Untamed Resistance in the Cosplay Scene in China
Anthony Y. H. Fung, Boris L. F. Pun

Part II. Part II Gender and Class

5. Making Masculinity: Articulations of Gender and Japaneseness in Japanese RPGs and Machinima
Lucy Glasspool

6. Living the Simple Life: Defining Agricultural Simulation Games Through Empire
Fan Zhang, Erika M. Behrmann

Part III. Part IIIColonialism and Transnationalism

7. Virtual Colonialism: Japan’s Others in SoulCalibur

Rachael Hutchinson

8. A Chinese Cyber-Diaspora: Contact and Identity Negotiation in a Game World
Holin Lin, Chuen-Tsai Sun

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Asian Culture, Media and Communication, Asian Politics, Gender Studies, Imperialism and Colonialism