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    Liu Mengfei at Beijing's Homoludens Archive Photo: Courtesy of Liu Mengfei
Inside Beijing's Homoludens Archive, shelves are filled with books, game consoles, game cartridges and other materials tracing the history of video games. For Liu Mengfei, the archive's director and chair of the academic committee of the Gamification Professional Committee, these collections preserve more than the evolution of games, they also capture the cultural memories of a generation.
A PhD in history from Tsinghua University, Liu has spent more than a decade studying the social impact of games, the role of games in history and digital humanities. Throughout her career, she has continued to explore the relationship between games and people: Why do humans create games? And how do games shape culture and society?
Books, meanwhile, have been an important gateway through which Liu has come to understand the world of games.
"The real value of a book lies not simply in what it tells you, but in whether it can change the way you understand the world and people," Liu told the Global Times.
Books meet games

In 2007, being an undergraduate history student, Liu wrote her thesis on the links between ancient Celtic religion and modern digital games.
To study original sources such as The Gallic War by Roman author Julius Caesar, she taught herself Latin. As her research extended into modern games, she also began reading the rulebooks of Dungeons & Dragons, a tabletop role-playing game.
"From historical texts to game rulebooks, these reading experiences seemed to belong to completely different worlds, but they gradually led me to realize that games are not simply entertainment products. They also contain history, culture and the relationships between people and society," she said.
Later, Homo Ludens, by Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, further transformed the way she understood games. The book gives a theory that humans are not only Homo sapiens, or "rational beings," but also Homo ludens, or "playing beings," and that games are deeply intertwined with human culture, from language and art to religious rituals and sports.
The book had a profound influence on her. It points out that the foundations of human society — language, civilization, religious rituals, sports and art, are all connected to play and games, because we are Homo ludens, "the playing human."
"The idea prompted me to view games from a broader perspective," Liu said. "Games are not an appendage outside human civilization, but are deeply connected to cultural creation and social life." 
"It also showed me that games and game-based thinking could extend into broader fields, including education and technology," she added.
She later read other works on game studies, including Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture, Half-Real and Rules of Play Game Design Fundamentals. Play Between Worlds, in particular, opened up another possibility for game studies at a time when discussions about "internet addiction" were prevalent in China.
"Games are not simply a form of entertainment that needs to be restricted or criticize;. they can also serve as important media for storytelling, cultural expression and exploring relationships," she said.
These reading experiences gradually shifted Liu's focus from simply asking "What are games?" to a deeper question: What can games bring to people?
Beyond time and technology
Periodically, Liu still returns to Homo Ludens in her free time, finding new insights from the book as society changes. In the age of artificial intelligence, she has revisited one of its fundamental questions: As AI becomes increasingly capable of handling repetitive tasks and surpasses humans in efficiency, what does it mean to be human?
"As AI takes over more monotonous and repetitive work, the time freed up should be devoted to creativity, experience and human relationships," she said. "The time we gain should actually be used to become better at 'playing humans.'" 
For Liu, this also requires people to maintain their ability to think, imagine and reflect -- abilities that cannot be gained through simply receiving information. This has also prompted her to reconsider the meaning of reading.
In an era when AI can quickly summarize an entire book, Liu believes people still need to read the original works in full, because the value of reading lies in more than simply acquiring knowledge and conclusions.
"Reading a book is like a form of cultivation. You have to immerse yourself in it, patiently allow the author to take you on a journey, and find your own island along the way," she said.
For Liu, the value of reading is not limited to books on paper. As media evolve, so do the ways people encounter stories and understand culture. Some digital works are now becoming new vehicles for reading.
Chinese-developed games such as Genshin Impact contain hundreds of thousands, and even more than a million Chinese characters of text, while Black Myth: Wukong uses its "Journal" system to tell the stories of individual monsters through written entries. 
"Digital games are carrying forward traditions inherited from literature and film, becoming new gateways, through which young people can enter the worlds of literature, history and traditional culture," she said.
"An important reason why Black Myth: Wukong has succeeded in communicating Chinese culture is that it does not simply insert traditional cultural symbols into a game. Instead, it draws on the original Journey to the West, contemporary works inspired by the classic, as well as the game's own rules and interactions, allowing players to develop a new understanding of traditional culture through their actions," she noted.
For Liu, the forms of reading may change, but the desire to understand the world and discover oneself will not. From books to digital worlds, what matters is not only what people read or play, but how they think, create and find meaning through these experiences.
。    1月29日に配信リリースした、平野紫耀がプロデュースした「Number_i」初のラブソング『3XL』が高い反響を見せている。仕事は好調な平野だが、Instagramでは“異変”が起きているようで──。【画像あり】平野紫耀、「インスタ投稿削除」でも残した“プライベート写真” 　平野はInstagramでライブや仕事の合間の様子など、さまざまな写真を投稿し、ファンから好評だ。

二 | ただ、最近、ひっそりと削除した投稿があるという。「2023年7月29日、平野さんはInstagramのストーリーズで、黄色い壁の明るい飲食店でレモネードを飲むショート動画を公開。翌日、レモネードを前にポーズを取ったり、ストローをくわえた写真をアップしました。ただ、2026年2月下旬から、SNSでこの投稿が削除されたことがファンの間で話題になっているのです」（芸能記者） 　実際、平野のInstagramを確認したところ、7月22日の投稿のあと、8月1日の《レモネードの後の散歩》とつづった店を出た写真がアップされており、29日の店内で撮影した投稿だけ消えていた。

三 | 貴重な“プライベート店訪問”投稿がなくなり、Xでは 《だいすきだったレモネード紫耀さんが…そりゃ消したくもなるしきっと大切にしているファンが利用されたのも許せなかったんだと思うな》 《紫耀くんのインスタ レモネードの投稿は消したね やっぱり机の件か》 《レモネード消えてる、、そりゃ消しちゃうよね》 など、惜しむ声が聞かれている。ただ、悲しみながらも、平野の行動に理解を示す意見が多いのには、理由があるようだ。「平野さんが訪れたのは、都内のサンドイッチ店だったのですが、この店は2026年1月末で閉店することになりました。ただ、2月初旬、同店のSNSアカウントが、当時平野さんが座った椅子と机をオークションで販売する旨を告知したのです。平野さんの人気にあやかろうとする手法がSNSで拡散され、物議を醸しました」（芸能記者） 　2月4日、冒頭の新曲『3XL』が4月にCDシングルでも発売されることを記念して、Number_iの公式Instagramでライブ配信をおこなった。その際、平野から意味深な発言が飛び出す場面が。「トーク中盤、今回のリリース特典として、抽選でサイン入りアザージャケットが当たることを発表しました。その際、平野さんが『変に転売とかオークションとか出ちゃうとか嫌じゃん？ だからダメですよ。

四 | 机とか買わないでくださいね』と話していたのです。“机”という具体的な名称が出たことで、“オークション騒動”が平野さんの耳に入っているのではないかと話題になりました。さらに、店を訪れた際の写真が削除されたことで、心境が気遣われたようです。ただ、平野さんが店を出た後の写真を残したことに関しては、コメント欄で『残してくれてありがとう』と喜ぶ声もあがっています」（同前） 　平野のプライベート投稿がアップデートされていくことを期待したい。

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