TY  - GEN
T1  - The Shanghai Green Gang : politics and organized crime, 1919-1937
A1  - Martin, Brian G.
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 1996
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm45727267
AB  - In this example of history as detective work, China analyst Martin pieces together the fascinating and complex story of the Shanghai Green Gang and its charismatic leader, Du Yuesheng. Martin sifts through a variety of fragmentary and at times contradictory evidence--from diplomatic dispatches to memoirs to police reports--to produce the most comprehensive account of this chaotic period of Chinese history. In analyzing the Green Gang's system of organized crime in Shanghai, the author broadens our understanding of a critical aspect of Chinese urban history and sheds light on the history of drug trafficking and organized crime worldwide. Martin argues that the Green Gang, the most powerful secret society in China during the first half of the twentieth century, was a resilient social organization that adapted successfully to the complex environment of a modernizing urban society, and demonstrates how it was absorbed into the corporate state system after 1932.--From publisher description.
OP  - 314
CN  - DS796.S257 M36 1996eb
SN  - 9780520916432
SN  - 0520916433
SN  - 0585131198
SN  - 9780585131191
SN  - 0520201140
SN  - 9780520201149
KW  - Qing bang (Society)
KW  - Du, Yuesheng, : 1888-1951.
KW  - Du, Yuesheng, : 1888-1951
KW  - Shanghai (China) : Politics and government.
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / General
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - China : Shanghai
KW  - Georganiseerde misdaad.
KW  - Benden (criminaliteit)
KW  - Shanghai.
KW  - Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East.
KW  - History & Archaeology.
KW  - East Asia.
ER  -