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Title: Pung Chow
The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling

Author: Lew Lysle Harr

Release Date: November 23, 2008 [eBook #27318]

Language: English

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PUNG-CHOW

THE GAME OF A HUNDRED INTELLIGENCES

_Also known as_

MAH-DIAO

MAH-JONG

MAH-CHEUK

MAH-JUCK

_and_

PE-LING

by

L. L. HARR

[Illustration]

Harper & Brothers, _Publishers_
New York and London

Copyright, 1922
by L. L. Harr

Printed in the U. S. A.

NOTE

Mr. L. L. Harr's skill in the game of Pung Chow has been acquired
through more than twenty years of intimate contact with the business and
official circles of cultured Chinese in Canton, Shanghai, Tientsin,
Pekin and other centers of China. Mr. Harr has enjoyed more opportunity
to mingle in polite Chinese society than any other European or American
resident I knew in China.

Mr. Harr, in consequence, was perhaps one of the first foreigners who
learned the game from the best players in China. What is more, Mr.
Harr's unusually keen appreciation and enthusiasm were largely
instrumental in arousing the popularity of this extraordinarily
fascinating Chinese game in the Western Hemisphere. To use a familiar
American phrase, Mr. Harr was unquestionably one of the pioneers who put
"PUNG CHOW" on the map west of Suez.

Mr. Harr has not only brought the game to America, but has written the
first authoritative book on "Pung Chow," based on the best modern
methods of Chinese play.

J. D. BUSH,
Professor of English L