Update. Completed the next page of Tony Watson’s MJ collection Gallery. See under Private Collections. Added another set to Garland Price Gallery. See under Private Collections. ...Read More
Recent additions to the site are; (1) a section – The Tile and Card Game Name – on the derivation of the name ‘Mahjong” from existing names for the game during the late 19th century. An etymological hypothesis is put forward by Hongbing Xu that discusses this development. (2) An additional private collection is being added to the Private Collections… ...Read More
In the article The Origin and Development of the Mahjong Tile Set. Part 10, page 44 and 45, in the latest issue of The Mahjong Collector magazine, there is an error in the 2nd paragraph. Figures 5-8 do not have Arabic numerals and therefore the penultimate sentence in that paragraph should have been omitted. ...Read More