Games

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Tangrams: The 3,000-Year-Old Puzzle That Taught China Geometry Before Euclid

Tangrams: The 3,000-Year-Old Puzzle That Taught China Geometry Before Euclid

wikiHow

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Cat's Cradle — The String Game That Turns Two Hands Into Art

Cat's Cradle — The String Game That Turns Two Hands Into Art

wikiHow

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The Chinese Diabolo: 2,000 Years of Spinning, Tossing, and Defying Gravity 6:18

The Chinese Diabolo: 2,000 Years of Spinning, Tossing, and Defying Gravity

Kuma Films

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Where Winds Meet: How a Chinese Wuxia Game Conquered 15 Million Players Worldwide 2:18

Where Winds Meet: How a Chinese Wuxia Game Conquered 15 Million Players Worldwide

IGN

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Dou Dizhu — The Card Game That 300 Million Chinese Play Every Day 9:15

Dou Dizhu — The Card Game That 300 Million Chinese Play Every Day

Shut Up & Sit Down

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Black Myth: Wukong — How a Chinese Game Made the World Read Journey to the West 1:03:50

Black Myth: Wukong — How a Chinese Game Made the World Read Journey to the West

NeddyTheNoodle

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Weiqi — The 4,000-Year Game of Black and White That Teaches You Nothing (and Everything) 11:24

Weiqi — The 4,000-Year Game of Black and White That Teaches You Nothing (and Everything)

Go Magic

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Xiangqi — Chinese Chess and the Battlefield of the Mind 11:27

Xiangqi — Chinese Chess and the Battlefield of the Mind

Xiangqi Chinese Chess

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Jianzi: The Chinese Hacky Sack That Predates Football by Two Millennia 5:47

Jianzi: The Chinese Hacky Sack That Predates Football by Two Millennia

CGTN

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Xiangqi — Chinese Chess and the River That Divides Two Kingdoms 12:38

Xiangqi — Chinese Chess and the River That Divides Two Kingdoms

Xiangqi Chinese Chess

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AlphaGo and Weiqi — When AI Cracked the World's Oldest Board Game 1:30:27

AlphaGo and Weiqi — When AI Cracked the World's Oldest Board Game

Google DeepMind

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Mahjong — The Game That Built Chinese Social Life 2:30

Mahjong — The Game That Built Chinese Social Life

South China Morning Post

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Chinese Shadow Puppetry: The World's Oldest Animation, Still Alive 10:08

Chinese Shadow Puppetry: The World's Oldest Animation, Still Alive

UNESCO

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Chinese Shadow Puppetry — The 2,000-Year Cinema That Refuses to Die

Chinese Shadow Puppetry — The 2,000-Year Cinema That Refuses to Die

CGTN

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