Stapleton, Kristin, “Urban Politics in An Age of "Secret Societies": the Cases of Shanghai and Chengdu” (1996)

Title : “Urban Politics in An Age of "Secret Societies": the Cases of Shanghai and Chengdu”

Author(s) : Stapleton, Kristin

Year : 1996

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : social

Journal : Republican China

Volume : 22

Number : 1

Start page : 23

End page : 63

Language:Name : English

Support : Print

Abstract : Compares and contrasts the organizational structures and types of activities employed by the Green Gang in Shanghai and the Gelaohui in Chengdu, Sichuan, two brotherhood associations that influenced and sometimes criminally compromised local urban politics during the Republican period.