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- Title
Games With a Continuum: Globalization, Regionalization, and the Nation-State in the Development of China's Online Game Industry.
- Authors
Jiang, Qiaolei; Fung, Anthony Y.H.
- Abstract
As a case study, this article examines the development of China's online game industry and how China responds to the forces of globalization. Based on in-depth interviews, ethnographic research, and the analysis of archive documents from the past few years, this study identifies China's evolving strategy of neo-techno-nationalism. In the Chinese context, this national strategy manipulates technology to create a version of popular nationalism that is both acceptable to and easily censored by the authorities. Therefore, cultural industries that adopt this strategy stand a good chance of prevailing in the Chinese market. This success explains why the regional competitors of Chinese online games—Korean games—are more successful in China than most of their Western counterparts. By providing a snapshot of the current ecology of China's online game industry, this article also discusses the influence of regional and global forces in a concrete context and argues that the development of China's online game industry depends more on political factors than economic factors.
- Subjects
VIDEO game industry; NATIONALISM; GLOBALIZATION; CULTURAL industries; ETHNOLOGY
- Publication
Games & Culture, 2019, Vol 14, Issue 7/8, p801
- ISSN
1555-4120
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1555412017737636