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 | #3600033 in Books |  Stanford University Press |  1994-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.94 x5.98l,1.49 | File type: PDF | 350 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Compelling history, scholarly approach|By A Customer|The writers do a fine job tracking down early origins of the misunderstood Tiandihui, going into great detail proving the not-exactly-newsworthy conclusion that Tiandihui began as mutual aid societies. Over time, they evolved into various other forms, taking in revolutionary influences as well as criminal. In fact, as most kn| |"An important book. . . . Murray has astutely sifted through a huge body of primary and secondary sources in both Chinese and English to present an excellent historiographical study of the origins of the Heaven and Earth Society. . . . This is a book well wort

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 a...

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