
Go Nation
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Notes on Terminology
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
The Game of Weiqi
New Technologies
The Ranking System
Gender Coding and the Naturalization of Difference
Weiqi Women
Ambiguous Identities and Taiwan's Women's Team
Constructing Masculinities and the Weiqi Sphere
Chapter 2. Multiple Metaphors and Mystical Imaginaries: A Cultural History of Weiqi
The Rules
Weiqi in Comparison with Chess
Religious Mysticism and Historical Teleologies
From Stigma to Status
Weiqi's War Imagery
Chapter 3. Nation, Race, and Man
The Scholar and the Warrior
Chinese Masculinities: Individual Formation and Nationalist Discourses
Anti-Japanese Sentiments as Nation Building
Japan's Weiqi Legacy
Mastering East Asia: National Rivalries and International Competitions
Conceptualizing Nations, Rethinking Play
An Unexpected Nostalgia for the Japanese Era
Chapter 4. Becoming Men: Children's Training in Contemporary China
Weiqi Teachers and the Confucian Ideal
Modernizing Influences-Weiqi Schools as Corporate Structures
The Students
Weiqi as a Disciplinary Mechanism
Weiqi as Sport-Beyond the Cartesian Divide
Disciplining Parents
Chapter 5. A Certain Man: University Students, Amateurs, and Professionals
Class Consciousness and Relentless Competition
Suzhi
Weiqi's Suzhi Discourse
The Peking University Weiqi Team, Ranks, and the Amateur/Professional Divide
Professional Training
Facing the Future
Chapter 6. Retirement and Constructions of Masculinity Among Working Class Weiqi Players
First Contact
Retirement
Park Culture
Kibitzing as a Social Ideal
Lived Histories
Masculinity Among the Working Class at the Park
Chapter 7. Conclusion: Looking Forward to a Bygone Age
Glossary of Terms
Citations
Index
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