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BOLTON, KINGSLEY & HUTTON, CHRISTOPHER, EDS. Triad Societies: Western Accounts of the History, Sociology and Linguistics of Chinese Secret Societies. 6 Volumes (complete).
London & New York,, Routledge. 2000. (ISBN: 0415153530) . 6 volumes. 8vo, red cloth. A very good, clean set. 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, and reprints the following works: Thian Ti Hwui: The Hung League [1866] Gustave Schlegel Freemasonry in China [1880] Herbert Allen Giles The Triad Society [1900] Inspector William Stanton The Hung Society, or The Society of Heaven and Earth [1956] originally published in 3 volumes, John S. M. Ward and William Stirling Triad and Tabut: A Survey of the Origin and Diffusion of Chinese and Mohamedan Secret Societies in the Malay Peninsula 1800-1935 [1941] Mervyn Llewelyn Wynne Triad Societies in Hong Kong [1960] W.P. Morgan, among others. Volume I, entitled SELECTED WRITINGS includes 27 works from the 19th century.
Offered for US$ 750.00 by: John Gunnison-Wiseman Books - Book number: 5061a
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