Author: Lucia Tang

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Lucia Tang

Lucia Tang is a Level 7 Lawful Neutral PhD candidate in History at UC Berkeley, where she works on premodern China and its modern cultural reception, both eastern and western. Outside of grad school, she writes educational content for Reedsy and particularly enjoys mining on her sub-Jesuitical knowledge of Chinese, Latin, Japanese, and Old Irish to work on the siteâ€™s historical name generators.

What Games With Asian Settings Get Wrong – and Why They’re Important Anyway

Posted by Lucia Tang | Sep 11, 2019 | Editorials

Oriental Adventure-style games are ahistorical to the point of hilarity, but there’s something seductive about them anyway.

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