Tian Di Hui
Tian Di Hui

Author: Kingsley Bolton

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780415243940

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This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.

Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads
Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads

Author: B. J. Ter Haar

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9789004110632

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The extensive ritual and mythological lore of the Chinese Triads form the scope of the new title in Brill's monograph series Sinica Leidensia. The author evaluates the extant sources and introduces several little used Triad manuals, as well as a wealth of contextual information. Triad lore is placed in its own religious and cultural context, allowing radically new conclusions about its origins, meanings and functions. Readership: Those interested in late imperial China's social and religious history, Chinese Triads, local ritual traditions, charter myths, as well as anthropologists, Asian administrators and overseas Chinese, and martial arts practitioners.

Yeh Ming-Ch'en
Yeh Ming-Ch'en

Author: J. Y. Wong

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1976-07-08

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780521210232

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The western reader is here presented with a biography of a major figure on the Chinese side in the crucial period of China's political contact with the western world, which describes a man of his own time and country, with his own background of education, endeavour and achievement and not merely a figure symbolic of Chinese obstruction of British purposes as he was seen from London or Hong Kong. This important work will be studied with interest by historians of both China and England and of Anglo-Chinese relations.

The American Historical Review
The American Historical Review

Author: John Franklin Jameson

Publisher:

Published: 1900

Total Pages: 884

ISBN-13:

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American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.

Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads
Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads

Author: Barend ter Haar

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-30

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 9004483047

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The extensive ritual and mythological lore of the Chinese Triads form the scope of this new paperback title in Brill’s Scholars’ List. The author critically evaluates the extant sources and offers a wealth of contextual information. The core of the book is formed by a close reading of the initiation ritual, including the burning of incense, the altar, the enactment of a journey of life and death, and the blood covenant. Different narrative structures are also presented. These include the messianic demonological paradigm, political legitimation, and the foundation of myth. Triad lore is placed in its own religious and cultural context, allowing radically new conclusions about its origins, meanings and functions. This book is of special interest to social historians, anthropologists, and students of Chinese religious culture.

Triad Societies: Selected writings
Triad Societies: Selected writings

Author: Kingsley Bolton

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 9780415243933

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This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.