The Origins of the Tiandihui: The Chinese Triads in Legend and History - Hardcover

by Dian H. Murray (Author), Qin Baoqi (Author)

The author reviews and analyzes the extensive Tiandihui literature, makes available to Western scholars information from archival materials heretofore seen only by a few Chinese specialists; and rmly establishes an authoritative chronology of the Tiandihui's early history.

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An important book. . . . Murray has astutely sifted through a huge body of primary and secondary sources in both Chinese and English to present an excellent historiographical study of the origins of the Heaven and Earth Society. . . . This is a book well worth reading.--China Review International