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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Ma Jiang, Mahjong, Mah-jongg or Ma Qiao – what’s in a game?
Whether you call it Ma Jiang, Mahjong, Ma-Jongg or Ma Qiao doesn’t really matter, (but if you think that the game of Mahjong on your computer is the real thing, think again, that is a form of solitaire and apart … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese games, gambling games, History of Mahjong, Ma Jiang, Ma Qiao, Mah-jongg, Mahjong, Outlaws of the Marsh, parlour games
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Chinese students are not The Yellow Peril
Sir James Dyson is one of Britain’s best known and most successful inventors – you may even own one of his bag-less vacuum cleaners. So when he says in an interview that Chinese students in British Universities are spies who … Continue reading
