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How did mahjong become so popular in the US? The game’s Chinese origins and American adaptations examined in historian Annelise Heinz’s book




Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture by Annelise Heinz. Oxford University PressAmerican historian Annelise Heinz’s aunt planted the idea for her book Mahjong. Why, she wondered, had the game become so popular, especially with middle-aged Jewish-American women, when it was clearly a Chinese invention?A Chinese friend had introduced Heinz to the game during the year she spent teaching English in Kunming, in China’s Yunnan province, in 2007/8. “It was just part of the…



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