Author Talk with Annelise Heinz: Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture

In her talk Heinz explores the American history of the Chinese parlor game mahjong. She charts a complex cultural journey as the game’s history connects American expatriates in Shanghai, Jazz Age white Americans, urban Chinese Americans in the 1930s, Jewish American suburban mothers, and Air Force officers’ wives in the postwar era.

Photo: Courtesy of Annelise Heinz