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Brian G. Martin - The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937 - 9780520201149 - V9780520201149
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The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937

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Description for The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937 Hardback. This work pieces together the complex story of the Shanghai Green Gang and its charismatic leader, Du Yuesheng. In analyzing the Green Gang's system of organized crime in Shanghai, the author aims to broaden understanding of a critical aspect of Chinese urban history. Num Pages: 279 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 654.
In a remarkable example of history as detective work, Brian 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 memoirs to police reports--to produce the most comprehensive account of this chaotic period of Chinese history. In analyzing the Green Gang's system of organized crime in Shanghai, the author broadens our understanding of a critical aspect of Chinese urban history and sheds light on the history of drug trafficking and organized crime worldwide. Martin argues that the Green Gang, the most powerful secret society in China during the first half of the twentieth century, was a resilient social organization that adapted successfully to the complex environment of a modernizing urban society. Illustrating its multilayered and complex relations with the bourgeoisie, the industrial proletariat, and the foreign and domestic political authorities, Martin demonstrates how these factors led to the Green Gang's absorption into the corporate state system after 1932.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
Number of Pages
279
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520201149
SKU
V9780520201149
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Brian G. Martin
Brian G. Martin is Senior Foreign Policy Analyst for the Australian Parliamentary Research Service and Research Associate at the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong.

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