00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862019750 Buklod 20160129122226.0 g||| | || || ta 160129s1971 xx af rb |||1 u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00019576889 DLC BAG rda eng fre HS 294 C54 1971 Chesneaux, Jean author. Societes secretes en Chine. English Secret societies in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Jean Chesneaux ; translated by Gillian Nettle. Hong Kong Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd 1971. xii, 210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations 22 cm English edition. Translation of Les societes secretes en Chine. Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and indexes. Introduction: from the Confucian Order to the people's China -- Documentary material -- The Confucian Order c.1840 -- A complete conventional system -- 100 years of invasions and revolutions -- Chapter 1: A secret society: the triad -- An initiation ceremony (Singapore, 1824) -- 'Restore the Hung and exterminate the Ch'ing' -- The five legendary founders -- The ritual of initiation -- The oaths -- Signs and secret language -- Justiciary brigands -- The lodges -- A scattering of rival factions -- From strikes to gangsterism -- Chapter 2: a few other societies -- The white lotus (Pai Lien Hui) -- The eight diagrams (Pa-Kua) -- The Nien -- The big sword society (Ta-tao-hui) -- The boxers (I Ho Ch'uan) -- 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-tao-hui) -- The green band (Ch'ing-Pang) -- The little sword society (Hsiao-tao-hui) -- The golden coins society (Chin-ch'ien-hui) -- The pure tea sect (Ch'ing-ch'a-hui) -- The golden elixir society (Chin-tan-hui) -- The way of fundamental unity (Yi-kuan-tao) -- Chapter 3: Secret societies and Chinese society -- Against the established order -- Political dissidence -- A quasi-patriarchal society -- Official 'commerce tribunals' -- The first feminists -- Social banditry -- A 'code of honour' of the Red Beards -- 'The opposition to his majesty'? -- Religious dissidence -- Theimage of celestial happiness -- The night and the mountain -- Recruitment -- Sun Yat-sen's analysis -- Rural outcasts -- Disbanded troops -- The first Chinese working class -- Doubtful members -- The reaction of imperial power -- A less rigid practice -- Chapter 4: Against imperial power -- The triad in Canton -- The small sword in Changhai -- The dismissal of the emperor -- The T'ai P'ing rebellion -- Were the T'ai P'ing a secret society? -- The origins of the T'ai P'ing -- The Nien uprising -- The White Lotus in Nanking and Shanghai -- The observance society in inner Mongolia -- Chapter 5: Against foreign penetration -- The carving-up of China -- Anti-Christian agitation -- The reawakening of the elder brothers -- The big sword against the Christian West -- The boxer rising -- The boxers' syncretism -- The social framework of the boxers -- National objectives -- Against France in Indo-China -- For monarchic restoration -- The attack on Saigon prison -- Against the Russians in Manchuria -- Chapter 6: In the service of the republican cause -- Under the republican banner -- The Kuomintang and the 'three principles of the people' -- A great revolutionary potential -- Close co-operation -- Inter-penetration: a success -- A setback among the emigres -- A common cause: the example of Ma Fu-yi -- Difficulties of a 'united front' -- Leaders in exile: a little-changed base -- The secret societies' influence on the republican movement -- The 1911 revolution -- Chapter 7: The Chinese revolution (1919-1949) -- The secret societies at the beginning of the workers' struggle -- from alliance with reactionary forces to gangsterism -- In the country: the red spears -- The Communists Party become interested in the red spears -- Guerillas aginst the Japanese -- Mao Tse-tung's appeal to the elder brothers -- Relations sometimes difficult -- Some pro-Japanese secret societies. Secret societies China. Nettle, Gillian translator. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN HS 294 C54 1971 Book