Secret societies reconsidered. Perspectives on the social history of modern South China and Southeast Asia

by David Ownby, eds Mary Somers Heidhues

$100 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Armonk, New York, London: M. E. Sharpe, 1993 . 8vo, pp. x, 259, 1 ; full black cloth, title in red and silver on cover and spine, fine. From the blurb: This book is unprecedented in the analytical breadth of its interpretations of Chinese secret societies, the critical awareness it has of past treatments of its subject and their weaknesses, and the wisdom of its geographical balance which transcends national identities, so that we can see the phenomenon as a

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