The Shanghai Green Gang : politics and organized crime, 1919-1937 /

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 me...

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Egile nagusia: Martin, Brian G.
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1996.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501090
Aurkibidea:
  • Origins of the Green Gang
  • The role of opium
  • The French connection
  • In the Chinese Revolution
  • The pact with the devil
  • Instability and crisis
  • Gangster politician : Du Yuesheng and the Guomindang state
  • Gangster entrepreneur : Du Yuesheng and the Shanghai economy.