Mahjong House Rules from Across the Asian Diaspora

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2025-04-08
Publisher(s): Hardie Grant Books
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Summary

Mahjong teaches readers the basics of how to play the game from setup to rules and scoring, but it also showcases mahjong culture, both past and present, through essays and vignettes on history, design elements, and communities that have been built around mahjong—plus how to build your own. Date your inherited or thrifted sets, identify the version you learned to play, refresh your memory of the rules or learn them for the first time, and expand your knowledge of the origins and variations of mahjong that have evolved from the Asian diaspora. 

Author Biography

Nicole Wong is a writer and audio producer based in Oakland, California. Her parents immigrated from New Zealand in the 1980s to Santa Monica, California. She started working on The Mahjong Project in 2019 - part instructional guide, part oral history project, to document her family’s house rules for playing and place it in the broader history and diaspora of the game itself. 

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