Reminiscing the relationship that once was
Updated: 2016-07-23 01:47
By Yu Ran in Shanghai(China Daily USA)
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American women play a floating game of mahjong at a swimming pool in the US in 1924. American expatriate Joseph Park Babcock developed a love for mahjong while working for the Standard Oil Company in Suzhou, Jiangsu province. By the early 1920s, he created a version with simplified rules and began exporting mahjong sets – setting off a craze back home. |
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