“…(In response to a series of investigative reports on the deaths of several young people, legislation was passed in 2009 outlawing electroshock therapy in such facilities in China [Stone, 2009]). Some social scientists have interpreted the obsession with online games as a response to the intense familial pressures to achieve high grades experienced by many young people in China today (Bax, 2011), while others have argued that the moralizing and pathologizing media and expert discourses around Internet addiction in China represent a means of state-fostered social control (Manjikian, 2012), a site for the negotiation of shifting ''moral relations in contemporary Chinese society'' (Golub & Lingley, 2008, p. 72;Szablewicz, 2010), and a focus for anxieties about the neo-colonial cultural effects of the Internet-crystallized in talk about online games as ''electronic opium'' (Golub & Lingley, 2008, p. 64). Such studies have generally focused on media reports, and there is much work to be done in expanding their insights with survey studies like that of Yang and colleagues (2013) in this special issue, as well as finer grained ethnographic and interview-based research, drawing upon the rich literatures of cultural psychiatry and psychological anthropology.…”