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The Six Games
China, the 1930s. Lin Rongxing — the xiangqi prodigy the chess world will christen "the Little Barber" — is fished out of a Wuxi teahouse as a boy, and dies alone in the rubble of wartime Shanghai a few years later. From the street back to the street: in between sweeps half the chess-playing Southeast — the bamboo blinds of the Huxinting teahouse, the coded banquet of a Hong Kong restaurant, the neon arena of a Canton department store. Watch him raise his crimson tower; watch him feast his guests; watch his tower fall.