Is mahjong gaining popularity worldwide?
chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-08-19 08:53
pantarhei (Sweden)
I always found it amusing in summer when old mahjong addicts are littered all over the sidewalks in China. That game is probably one part of China I will never learn to enjoy. But then I'm pretty much uninterested in all kinds of gaming.
Gao Xiuzhen (left) from the Shaanxi Xijing Team and Tina Christensen (right), 39, president of the European Mahjong Association, at the Fifth China Mahjong Forum and Championship - the qualification game for the Third World Mahjong Championship - on a cruise in the Yangtze River's Three Gorges region in Yichang, Central China's Hubei province, on Nov 22, 2011.[Photo/China Daily] |
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