Breaking Barriers: Chinese Female Go Players in the Mid-to-Late 20th Century......

罗婧玥·南治亨（Luo Jingyue & Nam Chihyung） /December 19, 2025

Abstract
As an outstanding female Go player in the world, Rui Naiwei’s life experience clearly shows the constraints that female Go players in China and the world have faced and the breakthroughs they have made in recent years. This article will analyze Rui Naiwei’s experience from the aspects of social environment and career development, and discuss the challenges faced by female Go players in the middle and late 20th century, as well as a series of breakthroughs, and finally obtain a relatively equal status and recognition with the male players in the field of Go.

Keywords: Rui Naiwei, Female Go players, Gender discrimination, Career development