Reconfiguring Daoist Cultivation in a Video Game: A Case Study of AMAZING CULTIVATION SIMULATOR

With AMAZING CULTIVATION SIMULATOR (GSQ Studio, CN 2019) as a case study, this article analyses how this video game reconfigures the practice of self-cultivation, which has deep roots in religious Daoism, and how it was inspired by online novels in a contemporary context. The game draws on Daoist wo...

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Main Author: Yuan, Ye (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Institut f. Fundamentaltheologie 2023
In: Journal for religion, film and media
Year: 2023, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 105-132
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Amazing Cultivation Simulator / Innere Alchemie / Practice / Taoism / Transformation / Novel / History 1900-2023
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
KBM Asia
TK Recent history
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Further subjects:B Chinese Religion
B Daoism
B (Self-)Cultivating
B Game Studies
B Chinese Indie Game
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