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Research output per year
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Author IDs
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2023-3912
Biography
Morgan Yu Hao received her PhD in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong. Her research explores the convergences of digital games, media philosophy, and posthumanism, with a particular focus on Daoist practices as represented in Chinese cultivation games. She has presented her research at leading international conferences such as CHI PLAY (2021), DiGRA (2022; 2023), International Society for Intermedial Studies Conference (2022), Games & Literature (2023), CEEGS (2024). She is also a current board member of Chinese DiGRA.
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Research output
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Cultivation games and cosmotechnics: Reimagining Sinofuturism in Chinese cultivation narratives
Hao, M. Y., Jun 2026, In: Global Media and China. 11, 2, p. 267-282 16 p.Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
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Sketch for a Phenomenology of Gameplay (as) Performance: Bodies, Systems, Worlds
Leino, O. T., Hao, M. Y. & Möring, S., 16 Jun 2026, 2026: Abstract Proceedings of DiGRA 2026. Maynooth, Ireland: Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), 4 p.Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review
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Chinese Cultivation Games and Daoist Practice
Hao, M. Y., Qiang, P. J. & Davies, H., 28 May 2025, p. 1291-1295. 5 p.Research output: Conference Papers › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (without host publication) › peer-review
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From Wuxia to Cultivation Games: Reimagining Chinese Cosmology in Digital Space
Hao, M. Y., 2 Jul 2025.Research output: Conference Papers › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (without host publication) › peer-review
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Toward a Phenomenology of Gameplay (as) Performance
LEINO, O. T. & HAO, Y., 7 Apr 2025, (Presented).Research output: Conference Papers › RGC 33 - Other conference paper
Prizes
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Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies Scholarships (for non-local students)
HAO, Y. (Recipient), 1 Sept 2023
Prize: RGC 64B - Prizes and awards
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Outstanding Academic Performance Award for Research Degree Students (non-local UGC-funded students)
HAO, Y. (Recipient), 16 Aug 2023
Prize: RGC 64B - Prizes and awards
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Activities
- 5 Presentation
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Intertextuality, Intermediality, and Intermateriality in Chinese Cultivation Games and Novels
HAO, Y. (Speaker)
4 May 2022 → 6 May 2022Activity: Talk/lecture or presentation › Presentation
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Co-becoming with Games: Agency in Digital Games and Play
HAO, Y. (Speaker)
4 Feb 2022Activity: Talk/lecture or presentation › Presentation
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Computer Games as Social Sculptures : Rethinking the Discourse of Participation and Its Implications for Digital Game Design
HAO, Y. (Speaker)
18 Oct 2021 → 21 Oct 2021Activity: Talk/lecture or presentation › Presentation
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Becoming-woman and the Affective Politics in The Sims 4
HAO, Y. (Speaker)
11 Jun 2021 → 16 Jun 2021Activity: Talk/lecture or presentation › Presentation
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On Naïve and Sentimental Player: Rethink the Potentiality of Computer Games
HAO, Y. (Speaker)
7 Nov 2020 → 8 Nov 2020Activity: Talk/lecture or presentation › Presentation
Thesis
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Towards a Relational Ontology of Computer Games: A Posthumanist Performative Account of Single-player Games and Play
HAO, M. (Author), LEINO, O. T. (Supervisor), 23 Oct 2024Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis