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Asian games: the art of contest

Asian games: the art of contest
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ISBN 0878480994 (pbk.)
Title Asian games : the art of contest / edited by Colin Mackenzie and Irving Finkel
Publisher [New York] : Asia Society, 2004
Physical desc. 324 p. ; col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Note Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Asia Society Museum, New York and at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-320) and index.
Contents The arts of contest / David Parlett -- Pt. 1: Tossing and turning. Dice in India and beyond / Irving Finkel -- Round and round the houses: the game of pachisi / Irving Finkel -- The ups and downs of life: the Indian game of snakes and ladders / Irving Finkel -- Official aspirations: Chinese promotion games / Andrew Lo -- Scenic views: e-sugoruku / Masukawa Koichi -- The world conqueror emerges: backgammon in Persia / Irving Finkel -- Double sixes, holding spears, and the long march: games of the backgammon family in China / Andrew Lo -- Ban-sugoruku: Japan's game of double sixes / Masukawa Koichi -- Liubo: the five-hundred-year craze / Colin Mackenzie -- A raja's diversions / board games at Mysore / Irving Finkel -- Pt. 2: War and territory. Chess and its visual culture in West, South, and Southeast Asia / Ann C. Gunter -- 'The earthworms tame the dragon': the game of xiangqi / Andrew Lo and Tzi-Cheng Wang -- Shogi, Japan's game of generals / Masukawa Koichi -- Spider threads roaming the empyrean: the game of weiqi / Andrew Lo and Tzi-Cheng Wang -- Go: Japan's siege game / Masakawa Koichi -- Pt. 3: Games of matching and memory. China's passion for pai: playing cards, dominoes, and mahjong / Andrew Lo -- Persian playing cards: a courtly art / Layla Diba -- Ganjifa: the traditional playing cards of India / Jeff Hopewell -- Japanese games of memory, matching, and identification / Tomoko Sakomura -- Pt. 4: Power and dexterity. Pitchpot: the scholar's arrow-throwing game / Virginia Bower and Colin Mackenzie -- Polo: the emperor of games / Virginia Bower and Colin Mackenzie -- Keeping it in the air: kickball in Japan and China / Virginia Bower and Colin Mackenzie.
Corporate name Asia Society
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Subject Games -- Asia -- History -- Exhibitions
Indoor games -- Asia -- History -- Exhibitions
Board games -- Asia -- History -- Exhibitions
Card games -- Asia -- History -- Exhibitions
Board games in art
Card games in art
Added name(s) Mackenzie, Colin (Colin Christopher)
Finkel, Irving L.
Added name(s) - Corporate Asia Society
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