Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition

This study examines the emergence and evolution in China of a tradition of popular organization generally known...
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Author: David Ownby
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Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition by Ownby, David

Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition

Dhs. 510.09

Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition

Dhs. 510.09
Author: David Ownby
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

This study examines the emergence and evolution in China of a tradition of popular organization generally known under the rubric of "secret society." The author suggests that the secret society is properly understood as one variety of the "brotherhood association," a category that encompasses a range of popular fraternal organizations that flourished in the early and mid-Qing period.

The book begins by describing the proliferation of brotherhood associations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particularly in Southeast China. It concludes in the early nineteenth century, as the Qing suppression of the Lin Shuangwen rebellion in late 1780's forced members of the best-known brotherhood association, the Heaven and Earth Society (Tiandihui) to flee their homes in the Southeast, taking refuge in other parts of South China and Southeast Asia and, eventually, in Chinatowns throughout the world. This episode set the stage for the violent nineteenth-century confrontations between the Qing state and the secret societies.



Author: David Ownby
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 09/01/1996
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.16w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780804726511

About the Author
David Ownby is Assistant Research Fellow at the Université de Montréal. He is the co-editor, with Mary Somers Heidhues, of Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia.

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