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Nanyang variants

descent disputed

Sources

Sources

The documents this entry rests on, as published. Each can be opened and checked; nothing in this part is anybody’s reading of them.

  1. Sloper, Tom. "FAQ 2b: Identifying a Mah-Jongg Variant." Sloperama. supporting checked 2026-09-18

    https://www.sloperama.com/mjfaq/mjfaq02b.html

    chart’s note Tile counts, hand sizes, flower handling and scoring for roughly 50 named variants. Primary source for most leaf nodes in this chart.

    Also cited on: Chinese archaic, Late Qing style, Chinese pre-classical, Chinese classical, Shanghai / Hong Kong new style, Hong Kong old style and 44 more · bibliography #1

  2. Mahjong Wiki. "Family Tree and Timeline." mahjong.wikidot.com. canonical checked 2026-09-18

    http://mahjong.wikidot.com/

    chart’s note The decade-by-decade timeline and the branch structure this chart follows, including the caveat that each variant's evolution has been cross-cultural.

    Also cited on: Chinese classical, Shanghai / Hong Kong new style, Mainland regionals, Korean traditional · bibliography #7

AI-generated

Analysis

Written by an AI model from the sources above. It is a reading of them, not a source in its own right: every figure in it points back to a numbered source, and where the two disagree, the source is right.

Assessment

Confidence
disputed the descent shown is contested; the chart drew this link dashed
Evidence
unsupported the sources checked do not carry the claim this node makes

Cross-comparison

What each source was read to say, set side by side. The numbers are the sources above.

  • [1] Sloperama catalogues the individual Southeast Asian variants but uses no grouping term 'Nanyang' and asserts no common parent for them
  • [2] the wiki's family tree is the chart's stated source for this grouping; the chart itself draws the link dashed and states that no source establishes the descent

Reading it

Sloperama catalogues each Southeast Asian variant separately and never groups them or asserts a common parent; the grouping term does not appear. This is consistent with the chart drawing the link dashed, and confirms the grouping is just a way of organising the tree, with no source behind the lineage.

In the tree

Descends from Hong Kong old style, as the source chart draws it.

Caveat from the source chart

Drawn with a dashed connector in the source chart: no source establishes this descent.

Descends into

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