Games and Playfulness: Bodiless solidarity in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

As China undergoes its digital revolution with the rapid developments of new media and technology on a massive scale, the bodies which used to be the sites for acclaiming for socio-political demands are now shifted to the digital sphere. However, social activists have discovered alternative ways to raise their voices through the virtual and cyber space. They have interwoven a hybrid body of solidarity in games and digital platforms. This article takes the 2020 Hong Kong resistance in Nintendo game Animal Crossing and the legacy of Covid-19 'Whistle blower' Li Wenliang on Chinese social media as cases, aiming to develop a comprehensive and comparative analysis on the performativity and solidarity that emerge with gamification and playfulness in contemporary Sino-sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]