Asian Origins Of Gaming Exhibited

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday August 11, 2004 @04:16AM from the back-in-the-day dept.

thrashor writes "A major upcoming exhibit of the Asia Society in New York City explores the Asian origins of games - including many of the favorite board games in the English speaking world. The exhibition looks at how games have been as important as trade and religion in transmitting cultural ideas. Backgammon, dice games, chess, and of course (my favorite), Go/Weiqi/Baduk are explored, among many others." The exhibition preview mentions: "Illustrating the importance of games in early societies, mastery of weiqi was considered by Chinese people to be one of four essential cultural accomplishments along with music, calligraphy and painting."

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Re:Asia does not equal Orient by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-11 04:48 · Score: 4, Insightful

Some of the best of these games mentioned actually came from the Middle East. I hate how China/Japan always get credit for the greatest inventions of history.

Those of us who have bothered to RTFA are aware that it refers to Persia about as often as China. I hate Slashdot posters who write kneejerk posts based on their personal prejudices without bothering to find out whether their complaints actually have any basis in reality.