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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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