Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He is the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize for international reporting.
Karl Marx once called religion "the opiate of the masses." Now Chinese leaders think of video games in the same terms. (Source photos by Kyodo, Reuters and Getty Images)
China up close
Analysis: Xi aims to mobilize the masses with populist crackdowns
Demonizing of tutor industry and games has hints of Cultural Revolution
Read Next
re.jpg?width=178&fit=cover&gravity=faces&dpr=2&quality=medium&source=nar-cms&format=auto&height=100)
Latest on China up close
