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The Community of Games

16 Thursday Aug 2012

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A WomanTraveling Alone China, card games, China, Chinese Chess, Chinese community, Feicheng Shandong Province China, Life in China, mahjong, Shanghai, The people of China, Travels in China

I surreptitiously watched card games and Mahjong games being played on make-shift tables on sidewalks all over Shanghai and Feicheng. The players, seated on small collapsible stools, spent hours at their games.

I was disappointed that I was never able to get a picture.

At the end of my stay in Feicheng, I had a few hours to wander in the park across from our hotel, and finally got my shot, not of cards or Mahjong, but something equally absorbing. The haze of cigarette smoke drifted amidst the men who were so focused on the game that they took no notice of me or my camera.

Not a single man glanced my way, which allowed me to watch their game without feeling as if I were intruding.

They play with discs that are similar to checkers; yet the moves seemed more like chess.

I learned later that the game is called Chinese chess.

Posted by Mona | Filed under China, People, Photography, Travels

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