{"product_id":"mahjong","title":"Mahjong : an International Manual","description":"Mahjong is a board game that encapsulates the rich history and cultural traditions of East Asia. Due to the cultural and geographical isolation in the process of Mahjong’s transmission, different countries and regions have their own diverse\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emahjong rules (e.g. the rules in Taiwan, Hong Kong, various regions of China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore etc.), but because all the different rules are relatively easy to interchange, people who know Mahjong - though having different\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elanguage, cultural and ideological backgrounds - could sit down and play mahjong together: in this case those conflicts, nationalities, political positions, problems, ideologies, struggles - found a common ground. Mahjong thus becomes the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esituation\/place where people meet, communicate, exchange, and make friends.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the wish to further extend and promote this precious situation, we decided to form a collective „Mahjong Friends“ and started the project with people from different regions. We hope to use mahjong as a means to help more people understand\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe intricate history and delicate, tense current political situation in East Asia, as the game itself is full of political metaphors. As the first publication of Mahjong Friends, \u003cem\u003eMahjong: an International Manual\u003c\/em\u003e introduced the basic Mahjong rules\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eas well as the culture\/stories behind the patterns of Mahjong tiles through witty descriptions and vivid illustrations, accomplished with a poster full of Mahjong archive \u0026amp; history, as well as a piece of tiny Mahjong cheating paper, this *very cool and deep* Mahjong Manual book aims to bring peace to the world.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMahjong Friends, 2023\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSoftcover, 56pp + 1 poster + 1 Cheating paper \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e205 x 125mm","brand":"Tenderbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43959246160090,"sku":"","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0488\/8029\/files\/Tenderbooks-10_1e3cdbd4-2f19-4520-8ad1-88117438f12f.jpg?v=1718974348","url":"https:\/\/tenderbooks.live\/products\/mahjong","provider":"Tenderbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}