The Game People Played: Mahjong in Modern Chinese Society and Culture
| Autor: | Maggie Greene |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Cultural Studies
History China Qing media_common.quotation_subject madiao Key (music) Newspaper 03 medical and health sciences Antithesis 0302 clinical medicine Bourgeoisie 0601 history and archaeology 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology media_common games weiqi 060101 anthropology mahjong Modernity Media studies 06 humanities and the arts Chinese society Republican lcsh:History of Asia lcsh:DS1-937 go Law Period (music) |
| Zdroj: | Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, Iss 17, Pp 1-25 (2015) Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, vol 1, iss 17 |
| ISSN: | 2158-9674 2158-9666 |
| Popis: | This article considers the discourse surrounding the popular Chinese table game of mahjong in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, using it as a barometer to trace social and cultural changes during the late Qing and Republican periods. After analyzing the connection between mahjong; its forerunner, madiao; and their antithesis, weiqi (go), it traces the changing position of mahjong in Chinese society from a game seemingly loathed by literati to a staple of bourgeois parlors. Drawing on a variety of journals, newspapers, and visual sources, the article further explores culture from class and gender perspectives in the late Qing and Republican periods, as mahjong moved from a visibly male activity to one largely associated with women. Finally, it considers the relationship between games and discourses of modernity, and the important changes taking place regarding leisure time in the twentieth century. The article argues that mahjong has been uniquely resistant to regulation and control. Enjoyment of the game spread across class and gender lines, despite the efforts of reformers, for reasons that reflect and embody key shifts from the late Qing dynasty through the end of the Republican period. Keywords: China, Republican, Qing, mahjong, madiao, weiqi, go, games, leisure |
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