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Kung Fu Mahjong 2
雀聖2自摸天后
2005 · Film · 94 min
Part of Kung Fu Mahjong Collection
Directed by Wong Jing
Fanny is a skilled mahjong player and young housewife, who's usually forbidden from her tile-clicking addiction by husband Johnny. However, when Johnny falls in with gambler Demon, Fanny gets sent packing. Johnny takes up with Demon's sister Curvy, and Fanny is left alone and seems to lose her mahjong-playing skills. Luckily, she receives additional training from her mahjong mentor Three Tiles, who also schooled Auntie Fei, as well as sexy player-in-training First Love. With the aid of her mahjong sisters, brother, plus Auntie Fei's husband Chi Mo Sai, Fanny regroups in time to take on Curvy, Demon, and Johnny at a climactic mahjong tournament.
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Chinese culture is very competitive, and if there is a score and a 'winner' I find that people will work very hard to achieve the highest possible score. I think it is inevitable that some of those competitors will use a creative interpretation of the rules to "win" and there are so many people competing it will lead to large numbers of people cheating even if the per capita numbers are similar for other groups.
There was a very funny movie (it was a comedy of course) called "Kung Fu Mahjong II" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Mahjong_2) in which a central theme was that everyone was cheating at the game and they all knew it. So at that point it isn't really "cheating" if the cheating is part of the game.
What is interesting is that science itself is not amenable to cheating, only the reporting of it is. And to the extent that reporting is a good proxy for the science, cheating there works. But failure to produce the actual science is like having someone else take your driving test, it puts your own life (and those driving around you) in danger.