Is mahjong gaining popularity worldwide?
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.
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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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