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Mahjong - A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture (Hardcover)
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Mahjong - A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture (Hardcover)
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How has a game brought together Americans and defined separate
ethnic communities? This book tells the first history of mahjong
and its meaning in American culture. Click-click-click. The sound
of mahjong tiles connects American expatriates in Shanghai, Jazz
Age white Americans, urban Chinese Americans in the 1930s,
incarcerated Japanese Americans in wartime, Jewish American
suburban mothers, and Air Force officers' wives in the postwar era.
Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
illustrates how the spaces between tiles and the moments between
games have fostered distinct social cultures in the United States.
This mass-produced game crossed the Pacific, creating waves of
popularity over the twentieth century. Annelise Heinz narrates the
history of this game to show how it has created a variety of
meanings, among them American modernity, Chinese American heritage,
and Jewish American women's culture. As it traveled from China to
the United States and caught on with Hollywood starlets, high
society, middle-class housewives, and immigrants alike, mahjong
became a quintessentially American game. Heinz also reveals the
ways in which women leveraged a game to gain access to respectable
leisure. The result was the forging of friendships within ethnic
groups that lasted decades and the creation of organizations that
raised funds for the war effort and philanthropy. No other game has
signified both belonging and standing apart in American culture.
Drawing on photographs, advertising, popular media, and dozens of
oral histories, Heinz's rich and colorful account offers the first
history of the wildly popular game of mahjong.
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