If the Xbox Came to China, Would the Chinese Notice?

A Chinese man plays online games at an Internet cafe in Beijing Photograph by Liu Jin/AFP via Getty Images

Twenty-four-year-old Zhu, a banker in southwestern China, took time Tuesday out of his busy schedule working for one of China’s leading banks and playing five to six hours of video games a week, to share his gaming ambitions. He loves the multiplayer online game World of Tanks—which has 45 million registered users worldwide—plays mostly alongside close friends, primarily uses his own laptop, and usually commands digital armored vehicles on weekends.

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