Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia: Perspectives on the Social History o Tapa dura - 1993

Armonk, New York: M E Sharpe - East Gate Books, 1993. First printing. Black full cloth boards, red and silver cover and spine titles, lt. shelf wear. Pages very good, clean. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Couple stamps at endps. A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries. This book brings together historical, anthropological, and sinological scholarship to revise our understanding of the origins and practices of secret societies, which have been understood by most twentieth-century scholarship as early signs of popular nationalism against the ethnically alien Manchu regime. Archival research in China and Taiwan now conclusively demonstrates that the origin of secret societies had little to do with national politics and that they are better understood as mutual-aid societies formed by young men who found themselves marginalized. David Ownby is Professor of History and… Leer más

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M E Sharpe Inc, 1993. Hardcover. New. 208 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches.