Research Catalog

Title

Asian games : the art of contest / edited by Colin MacKenzie and Irving Finkel.

Publication

New York : Asia Society, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Mackenzie, Colin (Colin Christopher)
• Finkel, Kenneth.
• Finkel, Irving L.
• Asia Society. Museum.
• Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
• Asia Society.

Description

325 p. : ill. (chiefly col); 28 cm.

Subject

• Games in art > Exhibitions
• Games > Asia > Exhibitions
• Games > Japan > Exhibitions
• Games > Middle East > Exhibitions
• Games > Iran > Exhibitions
• Games > India > Exhibitions
• Games > China > Exhibitions
• Indoor games > Asia > History > Exhibitions
• Games > Asia > History > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• History

Note

• Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Asia Society Museum, New York, and at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-320).

Contents

The arts of contest / David Parlett -- Dice in India and beyond ; Round and round the houses : the game of Pachisi ; 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-sugoroku / 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-sugoroku : 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 -- 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 -- Shoji : 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 / Masukawa Koichi -- 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 -- Pitchpot : the scholar's arrow-throwing game ; Polo : the emperor of games ; Keeping it in the air : kickball in Japan and China / Virginia Bower and Colin Mackenzie.

ISBN

0878480994

OCLC

• 57249772
• SCSB-13837985

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library