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Weifang, an ancient city with a long history and brilliant culture, is one of China’s four largest kite-making centres. Weifang kites are unique not only in their use of local colours and subjects, but also in their shapes and painting styles. This album depicts more than 300 of these beautiful kites. (ISBN:7801080718) (For this item please quote stock ID 15082) ISBN: 7801080718

Chinese Chess, or Xiangqi, is an extraordinary game in which the endless tactical subtleties are far more important than the eventual outcome. Those who perceive it as some primitive, outmoded predecessor of the modern game are seriously deluded. It has a distingushed history. As well as a board and play pieces, this pack includes a book that not only explains the rules and moves, but also describes the tactics in detail and the all-important endgame. Those who take the trouble to learn the rules will admit themselves into a world of endless pleasure and intrigue. (ISBN:1844429024) (For this item please quote stock ID 15870) ISBN: 1844429024

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This first truly comprehensive and beautiful volume on one of the world's most popular and intriguing puzzles comes in two parts. It's an authoritative, lavishly photographed history of Tangrams that reveals the mystery and beauty of this ancient art, and also a masterful introduction to Tangram puzzle-solving, with more than 2000 all-time puzzles which you can try to solve. This accurate history of this classic Chinese art form comes from a Tangram museum owner and his research team. They discovered many treasures, such as the Tangram sets used by Chinese mathematicians 2,200 years ago to test Pythagorean theorems. You'll see the Tangrams Napoleon played with during his exile. Photographs show how to arrange Tangram-shaped antique dinner tables for a variety of themes such as mountain ranges, flower arrangements, and celebration costumes. Among the puzzles for you to solve: 'paradoxical pairs' that appear to be identical, but differ in a hard-to-detect detail. (ISBN:1402704135) (For this item please quote stock ID 21817) ISBN: 1402704135

This companion contains a cross-file reference to over 120 hands. The hands are illustrated in colour and identified by following flip-top headings on each page. Each hand also contains a full synopsis. (ISBN:0864178913) (For this item please quote stock ID 21875) ISBN: 0864178913

On the outside always looking in - that’s the strategy of Snap! Mahjongg, the eye-popping, nerve-wracking game of tiles and timed play for your computer. Customise your game design and choose which skill level you’ll compete at. Then, start the clock and look for exposed matching tiles at various heights. Remove the pairs to expose new tiles, in an effort to beat the clock and clear the board. A fast-paced contest with tiles and style: that’s Snap! Mahjongg. >3 Game Designs: Classic, Tower & Aleatory >Easy, Medium & Hard Skill Levels >19 Gameboard Backgrounds:, from Animals, Urban Landscapes, to Outer Space >10 Music Tracks >Gorgeous, Full-colour Tiles (ISBN:) (For this item please quote stock ID 24038)

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This indispensable guide gives beginners and enthusiasts a first-hand look into the game that will enable beginners to play within an hour’s read, and enthusiasts to develop strategy and tailor their game to win in any situation. Offering a clear and concise introduction to the official rules of the game and outlining its many variants in greater detail, this comprehensive guidebook will help you to improve your skills and add strategy to your game. Tailored to the Western reader, this complete reference guide will accompany you from first acquaintance to total proficiency. (ISBN:0804832781) (For this item please quote stock ID 13297) ISBN: 0804832781

Making and flying kites is a traditional Chinese custom that has become a competitive sport in modern times. This book, of more than 200 photographs, illustrates many different kites and describes the ways of making and flying them. (For this item please quote stock ID 883) ISBN: 9787119026695

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This book celebrates the social history of insects in Asia and examines their long and fascinating relationship to humans in myth, art, literature, and science. Over fifty full-colour photographs and drawings. With glossary, index, and bibliography. (For this item please quote stock ID 12271) ISBN: 9780835125765

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The Book of Mah Jong meets that long-sought need, as author Amy Lo, in consultation with many master players of the different forms of mah jong, offers the most complete mah jong guide ever. Amy Lo, born in Canton, China, divides her time between Hong Kong, Tokyo, and the United States. Mah jong, which she has been playing for more than 30 years, is one of her favourite pastimes. (For this item please quote stock ID 13296) ISBN: 9780804833028

The Great Mahjong Book is a perfect resource for the beginning or experienced mahjong player. This comprehensive book covers the entire history of mahjong as it spread around the globe, on the equipment and accessories used in the game, the basic rules, how and where the game first developed and all the international variants of mahjong - ncluding China, the U.S., Holland, the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Hong Kong. Filled with hints, fun facts and numerous illustrations of memorabilia and artifacts, this authoritative and thoroughly enjoyable book is a perfect gift for anyone interested in this ancient and beguiling game. Jelte Rep is a passionate proponent of the Game of the Thousand Miracles, researching its history, equipment, playing variants and cultural artifacts. In addition to teaching mahjong and organising mahjong tournaments, Rep spends his time filming documentaries and writing dramas for television. (For this item please quote stock ID 26997) ISBN: 9780804837194

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Beginning Go is a clear and thorough introduction to the intricacies of Go that is perfect for first time players.

> Uniquely and easily solves the biggest problem that beginners face: How to know when a game is over, how to know what is alive and what is dead; and what the score is.

> Uses 9x9 and 19x19 games played by both beginners and professionals to clearly explain, in a new way, the principles of even and handicap strategies.

> Was written especially to enable the reader to organize and comprehend the bewildering amount of information now available on the Internet.

> Has sample 9x9, 13x13 and 19x19 boards that can be copied and enlarged for easy, inexpensive playing by beginners using coins, beans or other common household objects.

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This book is for readers at home and abroad with the purpose of introducing the game of GO to them all. Go is a strategic board game for two players. Go is probably the oldest of all known games. It is mostly popular in East Asia but has now gained some popularity in the rest of the word. Playing Go is an intellectual but interesting game. It is good for developing intelligence and a good sense of judgment, and it is also helpful for training and improving one's concentration, calculation, memory and will. So, now Go is not only as a term of simple entertainment and competition, but also as a term of character education in China. The book " How to Play Go" consists of two parts. Part one introduces the origin of Go, the rules of playing Go comprehensively, systematically and briefly. All terminologies in this part are written in English without transliteration from Japanese. Part two consists of a large number of Go terms, which are listed in 3 forms, that is "Chinese---English----Transliteration". For some terms examples are given. This part will help the translating work of Go books and materials. It may be used as a pocket dictionary for reading English Go books, and also as a handbook for exchanging skills between Chinese and foreign Go Players. This book may be used as an introduction for the beginners to learn the game of Go, and as a material for amateurs to study Go further systematically, it may also be used as a supplementary material for pupils to learn English in the Go training schools. (For this item please quote stock ID 30340) ISBN: 9787900708168

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This beautifully presented book presents all aspects of this fascinating subject. The book is divided into eight main sections and covers: The Origin of Chinese Kites, The Function of Chinese Kites in Ancient Times, Chinese Kites Today and Their Development, Kites from Various Parts of China, Four Skills of Chinese Kites, Kite Making Techniques and Elegant Kites of China. This book is illustrated throughout with colour photographs and illustrations and a number of detailed drawings. (For this item please quote stock ID 9509) ISBN: 9787533113933

Chinese chess, or 'elephant chess', has intrigued the powerful and the quizzical for centuries. Although its rules are similar to the well-known Western game, subtle and fascinating variations must be mastered in order to understand the strategies it requires. H. T. Lau breaks the silence of decades of publishing on this game and introduces Chinese chess to Westerners, discussing with the aid of 170 diagrams the board, the movement and values of the pieces, and basic rules for capturing and defeating an opponent. Suggested end-games and opening strategies are given as required reading for the beginner. Finally, his artfully simple book is closed with two appendice devoted to the elegantly constructed games found in The Secret Inside the Orange and The Plum-Blossom Meter, two classic seventeenth-century works on Chinese chess. (For this item please quote stock ID 9228) ISBN: 9780804835084

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Exciting practical guide helps even new kite makers to assemble, test, decorate and fly magnificent, traditional international kite designs. Complete instructions. (For this item please quote stock ID 4683) ISBN: 9780486249810