...Qi Dongfang (齊東方); 齊東方 Abstract As an iconic strategy game, go ( weiqi ) has long played an important cultural role throughout East Asia. This article examines representations of go in a variety of essays and especially poems. In doing so, it demonstrates that go was hardly a mere pastime, good...

... of the brothel. Later commentators, notably Zhang Zhupo 張竹坡 (1670–1698), reorganize the game sequences within which bouts of character manipulation are embedded for the purposes of narrative prolepsis and character development, advocating an approach to reading enigmas as portents that influenced late imperial...

... the word zhe 嗻 (yes). Some are complicated language games. One example, “Pangxie duan'r” 螃蟹段兒 (Eating Crabs) has rhymes that work in both Chinese and Manchu, while another, “Shengguantu” 升官圖 (Ascending in Official Rank), has bilingual puns overlaid on a framework of references that includes both...

... Johnson noted in the New York Times , demonstrate a bizarre sense of “what happened in China could not happen here” attitude in the West. Now that the pandemic is everywhere, Euroamerican hostility toward China has taken off and continues to accelerate at an alarming rate. The blame game and conspiracy...

... delight in all types of activities: expounding on allusions in the classics, parading citations from ancient literature, playing the “ancient zither” ( guqin 古琴) and flute, competing in chess games, commenting on and practicing painting and calligraphy, composing poems while experimenting with various...

..., but historical accounts and literary writings downplayed their importance. In addition, the Three Kingdoms lore has been enriched and updated in new formats: video games, fan fiction, and music videos. Fan fiction appearing in internet forums, BBS, and blogs—including the transgressive slash fiction of “danmei...

... was like a poor move in a chess game” 著著是卑棋. 19 Compared to Tian Xuan's poems, the sons' works are less erudite, but the poems demonstrate that they received enough classical Chinese education to express loyalist sentiments through poetry. There is no point in doubting the genuineness of their loyal...

..., an axe handle rotted away, 兩客爭棋爛斧柯 8 One young man spoiled the game but the Master did not get angry. 一兒壞局君不呵 Swallows chatter uselessly as they roost in the apricot beams, 杏梁歸燕語空多 10 The windows forever veiled by clouds, the building wrapped in mists. 奈此雲窗霧閤何 5 An entry...

... emperors, we need to examine the field of cultural production in the Qing. 5 The training of mid-Qing emperors was remarkable in terms of their multilingual and multicultural programs. As princes they were taught Manchu, Mongolian, and Chinese. Rigorous training in hunting and war games...

... excited, hugging and kissing each other after each success, piercing the air with their shrill cries, which at first worried, then amused the Sunday crowd on the eve of May Day. In short, the Cartesians versus the Bacchantes. Needless to say, the Cartesians ran away with the game. . . . Needless as well...

... is the image of the pendulum clock that carries a potential game spoiler for the visual illusion of which it is an integral component: its hands are permanently frozen at 11:18. This gesture toward the realm of time and temporality duly reminds the audience of the ultimate limitations of the painting...

... gambling games with his several concubines. Shen joins in the gambling and goes on a terrific winning streak. The girls are losing everything, all their money and jewelry. Shen takes pity on a particularly pretty one among them and offers to gamble on her behalf, to try to win back what she has lost...

... is a tetrasyllabic verse consisting of two disyllabic segments. Later, when the pentasyllabic pattern comes onstage with an additional syllable, the rules of the poetic game are fundamentally changed. Loathing its loneliness, the extra syllable tends to form alliances with existing syllabic combinations in the line...

... an illicit passion for her and she sets a trap for him. The “trap,” or “play of mutual admiration” ( xiangsi ju 相思局) in Chinese, is a setup full of the characteristics of a game, in which one is willing to beat and one is willing to put up with it. This game begins at the Ning household (again), when...

... and accessibility of a song's playful features, such an aesthetic differs in spirit from the often visually or allusively oriented literary games that had long been part of literati culture. If literary games were designed to demarcate an in-group of literary cognoscenti, sanqu songs structured their play in ways...

... drinking games could be seen in instrumental terms as means to further one's examination preparation. 31 This ever finer subdivision of temporal periods so that they can be exploited more effectively not only reminds us of the relentless involution of the rice paddy, it also foreshadows our own...

.... In the lyric Xiang Ziyin playfully ( xi 戲) personifies the osmanthus flower in his garden, spurring his colleagues to participate in a game of references and figurations involving the flower. But this literary game had a serious underlying intent. The depth of his infatuation with the flower is reflected...

... “Tou hu” 投壺 (The Game of Pitch-Pot) and “Ben sang” 奔喪 (Traveling Home for Mourning). Records of government decrees or laws. Examples include “Yue ling” 月令. Explanations of classical ritual texts, resembling commentaries to the seventeen chapters of the Yili . Examples include “Guan yi” 冠義...

... is completely random and without purposeful manipulation, as it would be in a game of drawing balls from a bag and arranging them in a five-slot box, even though we know the overall proportion of syllables of each tone in the poetic lexicon of the time. There could be unconscious preferences for using certain...

..., and generally just leave home. But they also spend time indoors—or, at the very least, in the constructed spaces of the court and the capital: partaking in banquets, watching spectacles, playing games, and—in private moments—enjoying a tryst with a lover, or combatting insomnia, illness, and old age...