Triad Societies:Western Accounts 6 volumes (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

The international media has traditionally reported on the triad secret societies in terms of a mythic Chinese Mafia, and accounts of their criminal activities have often been sensationalised.
Academic historians, sinologists and sociologists in the last twenty years have taken a different view of the development of such societies in South China and Southeast Asia. Some saw them as primitive revolutionaries who played an indirect, yet important, role in the 1911 revolution of China. Others tended to conceptualise Chinese triads in terms of brotherhood associations and mutual aid societies.
This collection assembles for the first time a highly interesting mixture of scholarly studies and field reports.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2000
First published:	2004
Authors:	Kingsley Bolton
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 170mm (L x W x H)
Format:	Hardcover • Hardcover • Hardcover • Hardcover • Hardcover • Hardcover
Pages:	568
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-15353-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Associations, clubs, societies > Freemasonry & secret societies
LSN:	0-415-15353-0
Barcode:	9780415153539

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