Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition by David Ownby

Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition

David Ownby

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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 "brother...

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