An angular tile which is covered with green on one side and various bump patterns on the other. Four players sit on each side of a square table and mix tiles around with their hands to shuffle them. The crisp, loud clacking sound when shuffling is its significance. That’s how this game starts. It is a tool of mass entertainment, a kind of culture, a kind of philosophy, and it’s defined as national quintessence in China. It is so-called “mahjong”.
Mahjong-ism is a book that studies the ideology, philosophy, values and the cultural background of mahjong. People usually stigmatize mahjong and use it as a term for gambling. Therefore, this book plays a role to defend mahjong and change the people’s perspective of the mahjong.
This book consists of the origin of mahjong, types of its game version, how to play, the personal story with mahjong and mahjong with life.
