Chinese Gambling Preferences and the Emergence of Casino Tourism

2016 ◽  
pp. 253-266
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Gambling ◽  
Gambling Preferences

The Gambling Preferences and Behaviors of a Community Sample of Australian Regular Video Game Players

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron J. Forrest ◽  
Daniel L. King ◽  
Paul H. Delfabbro
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Game Players ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Gambling Preferences

Japanese Immigrant Gambling in Early 20th-Century California

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrissy Yee Lau
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Cheap Labor ◽  
Japanese Male ◽  
Married Men ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
Chinese Gambling ◽  
Immigrant Wives

Gambling was a central facet of life for Japanese male laborers in early 20th-century California. From the late 19th to the early 20th century, labor contractors and Chinese gambling dens offered gambling to Japanese laborers to maintain a consistent cheap labor force and large consumer pool. Many laborers approached gambling as a form of leisure, an opportunity for getting rich quickly and building a sense of community. After the Gentlemen’s Agreement was passed in 1907–1908, Japanese elites led anti-gambling campaigns aimed at Chinese gambling dens in their larger project to build the empire abroad and acquire domestic civil rights. By the 1920s, Japanese-run gambling dens became more established, but the hardships of Japanese immigrant wives prompted collaboration with the Japanese Associations of America to address gambling among married men. The larger community memory around gambling is often told from the wife or children’s perspective, recounted with pain and suffering over how gambling tore families asunder.

The Future of Chinese Gambling: A Cultural Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
Chi Chuen Chan ◽  
William Wai Lim Li ◽  
Amy Sau Lam Chiu
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Chinese Gambling

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of distinct phenotypes in gambling disorder based on gambling preferences

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Moragas ◽  
Roser Granero ◽  
Randy Stinchfield ◽  
Fernando Fernández-Aranda ◽  
Frida Fröberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Gambling Disorder ◽  
Gambling Preferences

GAMBLING IN CHINA RECONSIDERED: FANTAN IN SOUTH CHINA DURING THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Paulès
Keyword(s):  
South China ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Significant Activity ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Chinese Gambling

Fantan 番攤 is a Chinese gambling game based on a draw from a random number of hidden coins or tokens, requiring the player to guess a number out of one, two, three or four. It currently survives only in Macao, but during the Late Qing and Republican periods, fantan was one of the most popular games in South China. Through the investigation of a wide range of sources, this article challenges the bias of standard accounts of gambling, which emphasize its corrupting influence and depict players as powerless victims cheated by the unscrupulous operators of gambling houses.The reality was less negative. Cheating by proprietors was by no means common and fantan was considered a socially acceptable leisure activity. For many people, it was part of daily life, and tanguan 攤館, the establishments where it was played, were popular venues both enjoyable and secure. They generated a specific kind of conviviality derived from complex interactions among participants. By underestimating the role of fantan (and gambling more generally), one risks overlooking a socially significant activity, something that influenced the way not only heavy gamblers but also ordinary people perceived their own lives and destinies.

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