3/9/14

The ‘Pre 1920’s Names’ section is finally completed. Perhaps at a later date more terms from after 1920 will be added. For now, all that is left is a Bibliography, to be added in due course.

There has been an unexpected outcome of this rewrite. At the end of the 1800’s (1890 – 1901) there appears to have been bone and ebony sets being used around the area of Shanghai. Two of the sets patterns are identical and also the number of tiles, so it seems that we have a snapshot of one type of set and game at that time.

I have to thank Thierry Depaulis and especially Hongbing Xu for much of the Chinese sources.