Nathanel Amar is a political anthropologist and part-time lecturer at the University of Hong Kong. Formerly director of the Taipei office of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China, he is the author of Scream for Life: L’invention d’une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire [The Invention of a Punk Counterculture in the People’s Republic of China] (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2022). His work examines the circulation of popular culture, subcultures, and cultural production across the Sinophone world.
Black Myth: Wukong (黑神话: 悟空; hereinafter BMW), an action role-playing game developed by the Chinese studio Game Science (游戏科学), became both a commercial and a cultural phenomenon after its release on 20 August 2024. BMW belongs to the ‘Souls-like’ genre, named after the Dark Souls series, whose punishing difficulty is by design: it appeals to […]
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