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Title: Excellent Factual Mah-Jongg Resource
Review: This book is the only Mah-Jongg book that I have read (of many) that dispells the many factual inaccuracies that have been carried for many years to America because of "marketing" originating in the 1920's. Those fallacies have been continued until the present. This book corrects them including the authentic rules. The author discusses how the original game was sacrificed for the American players game-playing needs, which are very different from the original Chinese game (not nearly as ancient as we were led to believe in the 1920's.)The author is very precise in his decription of the original game and the Chinese thought processes of that original game. Millington rounds out the book with the philosophy and symbolism of the oroginal game play. This book does take away some of the mystery we were sold by marketers in the 1920, so buyer beware if that fantasy is part of your play.
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