OK, let’s face (or at least I should) a simple fact: this reading on mahjong and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet are not exactly essential materials.
This board game did arrive in this country from China, so it does have relevance to Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2026. And this relatively short reading is interesting: it notes the game’s popularity among Jewish women (my mother, and her mother, neither of whom was Jewish, played it with their Jewish friends when I was a very little kid) and speculates that this stems from the proximity in tenements of Jewish and Chinese people in American cities.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Mark's Text Terminal 