SECRET SOCIETIES IN CHINA.

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Jindai mimi shehui shiliao ("Historical Materials on the Heaven and Earth Society and Other Recent Secret Organizations"). First edition of a classic and frequently reprinted work, edited by the historian Xiao Yishan and based on manuscripts he unearthed in the British Museum in the early 1930s. The copious illustrations, which include diagrams of Hung Society hand signals and meeting places, reproduce material in the museum's collections and plates from Ward & Stirling's 1925 The Hung Society."The foundation of genuine scholarly research into the origins and history of secret societies was laid by Xiao Yishan and Luo Ergang, the representatives of Republican period scholarship in the 1930s" (Bolton & Hutton, p. xxii).

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