Author: David Ownby
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Standford University Press
ISBN: 9780804726511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
In this book, David Ownby provides a history of the development of the Chinese secret society from the 17th to the 19th century.
Brotherhood and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China
Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia
Author: David Ownby
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315288036
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315288036
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Triad Societies: Selected writings
Author: Kingsley Bolton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415243933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415243933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.
Triad Societies
Author: Kingsley Bolton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415243971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415243971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.
Tian Di Hui
Author: Kingsley Bolton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415243940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415243940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.
The Origins of the Tiandihui
Author: Dian H. Murray
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080476610X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Tiandihui, also known as the Heaven and Earth Association or the Triads, was one of the earliest, largest, and most enduring of the Chinese secret societies that have played crucial roles at decisive junctures in modern Chinese history. These organizations were characterized by ceremonial rituals, often in the form of blood oaths, that brought people together for a common goal. Some were organized for clandestine, criminal, or even seditious purposes by people alienated from or at the margins of society. Others were organized for mutual protection or the administration of local activities by law-abiding members of a given community. The common perception in the twentieth century, both in China and in the West, was that the Tiandihui was founded by Chinese patriots in the seventeenth century for the purpose of overthrowing the Qing (Manchu) dynasty and restoring the Ming (Chinese). This view was put forward by Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionaries who claimed that, like the anti-Manchu founders of the Tiandihui, their goal was to strip the Manchus of their throne. The Chinese Nationalists (Guomindang) today claim the Tiandihui as part of their heritage. This book relates a very different history of the origins of the Tiandihui. Using Qing dynasty archives that were made available in both Beijing and Taipei during the last decades, the author shows that the Tiandihui was founded not as a political movement but as a mutual aid brotherhood in 1761, a century after the date given by traditional historiography. She contends that histories depicting Ming loyalism as the raison d'etre of the Tiandihui are based on internally generated sources and, in part, on the "Xi Lu Legend," a creation myth that tells of monks from the Shaolin Monastery aiding the emperor in fighting the Xi Lu barbarians. Because of its importance to the theories of Ming loyalist scholars and its impact on Tiandihui historiography as a whole, the author thoroughly investigates the legend, revealing it to be the product of later - not founding - generations of Tiandihui members and a tale with an evolution of its own. The seven extant versions of the legend itself appear in English translation as an appendix. This book thus accomplishes three things: it reviews and analyzes the extensive Tiandihui literature; it makes available to Western scholars information from archival materials heretofore seen only by a few Chinese specialists; and it firmly establishes an authoritative chronology of the Tiandihui's early history.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080476610X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Tiandihui, also known as the Heaven and Earth Association or the Triads, was one of the earliest, largest, and most enduring of the Chinese secret societies that have played crucial roles at decisive junctures in modern Chinese history. These organizations were characterized by ceremonial rituals, often in the form of blood oaths, that brought people together for a common goal. Some were organized for clandestine, criminal, or even seditious purposes by people alienated from or at the margins of society. Others were organized for mutual protection or the administration of local activities by law-abiding members of a given community. The common perception in the twentieth century, both in China and in the West, was that the Tiandihui was founded by Chinese patriots in the seventeenth century for the purpose of overthrowing the Qing (Manchu) dynasty and restoring the Ming (Chinese). This view was put forward by Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionaries who claimed that, like the anti-Manchu founders of the Tiandihui, their goal was to strip the Manchus of their throne. The Chinese Nationalists (Guomindang) today claim the Tiandihui as part of their heritage. This book relates a very different history of the origins of the Tiandihui. Using Qing dynasty archives that were made available in both Beijing and Taipei during the last decades, the author shows that the Tiandihui was founded not as a political movement but as a mutual aid brotherhood in 1761, a century after the date given by traditional historiography. She contends that histories depicting Ming loyalism as the raison d'etre of the Tiandihui are based on internally generated sources and, in part, on the "Xi Lu Legend," a creation myth that tells of monks from the Shaolin Monastery aiding the emperor in fighting the Xi Lu barbarians. Because of its importance to the theories of Ming loyalist scholars and its impact on Tiandihui historiography as a whole, the author thoroughly investigates the legend, revealing it to be the product of later - not founding - generations of Tiandihui members and a tale with an evolution of its own. The seven extant versions of the legend itself appear in English translation as an appendix. This book thus accomplishes three things: it reviews and analyzes the extensive Tiandihui literature; it makes available to Western scholars information from archival materials heretofore seen only by a few Chinese specialists; and it firmly establishes an authoritative chronology of the Tiandihui's early history.
Chinese Triads
Author: Cheryl-Ann Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gangs
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gangs
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Triad Societies: The Hung-Society, or the Society of Heaven and Earth
Author: Kingsley Bolton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415243964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415243964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.
The Sociology of Secret Societies
Author: Lau-Fong Mak
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Triad Societies: pt. 1. Freemasonry in China
Author: Kingsley Bolton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415243957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415243957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.