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

ISBN-13: 9780804726511 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 256 str.

David Ownby

Opis

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.