Leisure Play and Mahjong
By Yu Guangyuan (President of the World Mahjong Organization)
ISBN 7-5039-3105-1/g-601
Part III. Mahjong: Flower of the Chinese Genius
The history of mahjong

(Pages 106-121)

As announced on May 11, 2008, on the newsgroup rec.games.mahjong, this page is posted with hopes of someone translating the work into English for the use of mahjong scholars who cannot read Chinese.

Directions: the images were scanned at high resolution to facilitate reading as separate image files. Trying to view them in your browser may not be optimal.
1. RIGHT-CLICK the desired thumbnail below. This will cause a pop-up menu to appear.
2. Mozilla Firefox: "Save Link As..."
2. Internet Explorer: "Save Target As..."
3. From the subsequent pop-up "Save As" dialog, save the target image to a known location on your hard drive.
4. Repeat for any desired scan.
5. Minimize or exit the browser.
6. Navigate to the folder where you placed the downloaded image file(s), and open a file with your desired image viewer, or open your desired image viewer and use its Open menu to navigate to the folder where you placed the downloaded image files.
7. Use your image viewer's Zoom feature to zoom in or out to the desired magnification for reading.
8. English-speaking mahjong scholars around the world will be grateful if you post your translation on the newsgroup rec.games.mahjong.