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Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China - The Formation of a Tradition (Hardcover)
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Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China - The Formation of a Tradition (Hardcover)
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This study examines the emergence and evolution in China of a
tradition of popular organization generally known under the rubric
of "secret society." The author suggests that the secret society is
properly understood as one variety of the "brotherhood
association," a category that encompasses a range of popular
fraternal organizations that flourished in the early and mid-Qing
period.
The book begins by describing the proliferation of brotherhood
associations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
particularly in Southeast China. It concludes in the early
nineteenth century, as the Qing suppression of the Lin Shuangwen
rebellion in late 1780's forced members of the best-known
brotherhood association, the Heaven and Earth Society (Tiandihui)
to flee their homes in the Southeast, taking refuge in other parts
of South China and Southeast Asia and, eventually, in Chinatowns
throughout the world. This episode set the stage for the violent
nineteenth-century confrontations between the Qing state and the
secret societies.
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