On May 11, 12:23 pm, "Tom Sloper" <tslo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> In doing some other work today, I came across a book I'd been given at
the=
> World Mahjong Champion****p in E Mei Shan last November:
>
> Leisure Play and Mahjong
> By Yu Guangyuan (President of the World Mahjong Organization)
> ISBN 7-5039-3105-1/g-601
>
> Leafing through it out of curiosity, I discovered from the
English-languag=
e
> index that the book contains a chapter on the history of the game.
>
> Part III. Mahjong: Flower of the Chinese Genius
> The history of mahjong
> (Pages 106-121)
>
> I can't read Chinese, so I wonder if perhaps this chapter would be
> enlightening for the scholars who also can't read Chinese.
I can and I have read thru the pages, and I can conclude that the
information is not really what the scholars would need to know. Mr Yu
simply gathered info about mahjong (maque, majiang) from various
sources but lack of detailed references (e.g., gameplay being evolved/
developed from =C2=ED=B5=F5 Madiao, =C4=AC=BA=CD=C5=C6 Mohe Pai; game
being =
invented/creaded/
developed by =B3=C2=D3=E3=C3=C5Chen Yumen, =D6=A3=BA=CD Zheng He; etc.).
I believe most (if not all) info should have already been known to
most mahjong scholars, and perhaps to most regulars of this group as
well.
> In case anyone would care to translate the chapter for the benefit of
the
> group, I've scanned the apropos pages and posted them on my site at
http:/=
/www.sloperama.com/leisure/
This couldn't be easy. Mr Yu quoted many references from books in the
older forms of Chinese writing. I expect only the experts will do the
job, if it is worth doing at all.
Thanks for sharing the info. For those who could read Chinese this
could be a piece of refresher of the topic.
Cofa Tsui
www.iMahjong.com
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