"Rise and Present Peril of Mah Jong: The Chinese Game Has Escaped from Society's Chaperonage and Is on Its Own"
Magazine article
By: Helen Bullitt Lowry
Date: August 10, 1924
Source: Lowry, Helen Bullitt. "Rise and Present Peril of Mah Jong: The Chinese Game Has Escaped from Society's Chaperonage and Is on Its Own." The New York Times Magazine, August 10, 1924, 4.
About the Author: Helen Bullitt Lowry wrote feature articles on such topics as fashion and Atlantic City beauty pageants for the The New York Times Magazine.
Introduction
Twentieth-century Americans enjoyed a love affair with board games: Monopoly in the 1930s, Scrabble in the 1950s, Risk in the 1960s, and backgammon and Trivial Pursuit in the 1980s. Meanwhile, the old standby, chess, was rediscovered during the early 1970s under the influence of chess champion Bobby Fischer.
However, this love affair appears to have started sometime in 1922 with the importation from Asia into America of the...
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