Mahjong - A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture

In Mahjong, Annelise Heinz charts a complex cultural journey as the game's history 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.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction: What's in a Game?


• Chapter 1: The Mahjong Phenomenon


• Chapter 2: Cosmopolitan Roots in Shanghai


• Chapter 3: Making a Transpacific Game


• Chapter 4: Moderns and Mandarins


• Chapter 5: White Women and a Chinese Game


• Chapter 6: Inside and Outside Chinese America


• Chapter 7: Asian Exclusion and Enforced Leisure


• Chapter 8: The Americanization of Mahjong


• Chapter 9: Suburban Migrations and Summer Bungalows


• Chapter 10: The Paradoxes of Postwar Domesticity


• Epilogue: Reading the Tiles


• Acknowledgments


• Notes


• Selected Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Annelise Heinz is an assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon. Her work has been featured on National Public Radio and international Chinese television. She has lived and played mahjong in the United States and Southwestern China.

Summary

In Mahjong, Annelise Heinz charts a complex cultural journey as the game's history 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.

Product details

• Authors: Annelise Heinz, Annelise (Assistant Professor of History Heinz
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2021
• EAN: 9780190081799
• ISBN: 978-0-19-008179-9
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / North America, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Indoor games, Board, table top and strategy games, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Mahjong