TRIAD SOCIETIES by Kingsley Bolton (Editor), etc. (Editor), Chris Hutton (Editor) ( 9780415153539 )

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TRIAD SOCIETIES
WESTERN ACCOUNTS OF THE HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS OF CHINESE SECRET SOCIETIES

By:

Kingsley Bolton (Editor), etc. (Editor), Chris Hutton (Editor)

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0415153530

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9780415153539

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

28 September, 2000

Series:

Logos Studies of Colonial Encounters

Pages:

2704

Language:

English, German, Chinese, Dutch; Flemish, French

Description:

The set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Synopsis:

The international media has traditionally reported on the triad secret societies in terms of a mythic Chinese Mafia ruling a transnational criminal empire, and accounts of their criminal activities have often been sensationalised, even by serious writers and international law enforcement agencies. Academic historians, sinologists and sociologists in the last twenty years have taken a rather different view of the development of such societies in South China and Southeast Asia. Some historians of the 1970s saw them as primitive revolutionaries who played an important, although indirect, role in the 1911 revolution in China. Others tended to conceptualise Chinese triads in terms of brotherhood associations and mutual aid societies, the significance of which is best understood in terms of the economic and political history of the late Qing. The set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. This collection assembles for the first time a highly interesting mixture of scholarly studies and field reports.It will be of interest to scholars of Chinese and Southeast Asian studies, and anthropology, sociology, criminology, and the history of freemasonry and secret societies.

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Routledge

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