"Our get-togethers as overseas students took the form of playing mahjongg and having a meal." Control Yuan member Ku Chia-hua, an M.A. from New York State University, explains that overseas students in the old days, strapped for cash and snowbound on campus in the wintertime, would always play mahjongg together.
「留學生聚會的方式便是打牌再加上聚餐」，美國紐約州立大學碩士的監察委員谷家華解釋，以前留學生沒錢，尤其冬天下雪更沒地方去，便在一起打打牌。