SECRET SOCIETIES IN CHINA in the nineteenth and twentieth Centuries

grey cloth, pp.,xii, 210 , illustrations,, CONTENTS: Introduction: From the Confucian Order to the Peoples China -- A Secret Society: The Triad -- A Few Other Societies -- The White Lotus / Pai Lien Hui -- The Eight Diagrams / Pa-Kua -- The Nein -- The Big Sword Society / Ta-tao-hui -- The Boxers / I Ho Chuan -- The Observance Society / Chai Li-hui -- The Vegetarians / Chai-chiao -- The Red Beards / Hung Hu-tzu -- The Red Spears -- The Association of Elder Brothers / Ko-lao-hui -- The Green Band / Ching-Pang -- The Little Sword Society / Hsiao-tao-hui -- The Golden Coins Society / Chin-chien-hui -- The Pure Tea Sect / Ching-cha-hui -- The Golden Elixir Society / Chin-tan-hui -- The Way of Fundamental Unity / Yi-kuan-tao -- Secret Societies and Chinese Society -- Against Imperial Power -- Against Foreign Penetration -- In the Service of the Republican Cause -- The Chinese Revolution 1919-1949 -- An Interim Conclusion.

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Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Year: 1971

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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