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9780786708697

The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon of the Triads

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  • ISBN13:

    9780786708697

  • ISBN10:

    0786708697

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-07-17
  • Publisher: Perseus Books Group
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Summary

With unflinching candor, Martin Booth -- Booker Prize nominee and author of the critically acclaimed Opium: A History -- here unfolds the full story of the Chinese Triads, which, according to UN sources, now pose the greatest potential criminal threat the world has ever known. From San Francisco to Amsterdam to Bangkok to Johannesburg, everywhere, everyday, the Triads are turning crimes like extortion, gambling, international prostitution, illegal immigrant smuggling, money laundering, fraud, corruption, arms, and narcotics into vast profits. This comprehensive history of the Triads traces their evolution over more than two thousand years from obscure parochial Chinese brotherhoods to an international criminal organization. It examines the archaic quasi-religious rituals that have for centuries bound the members of this now global fraternity. It recounts the exploits of patriots and outlaws. It explores the Triads' instigation of the Tong Wars in America, their collaboration with the Allies against the Japanese in Malaya, their collusion with the CIA in Vietnam. It chronicles their escalation of the heroin trade to Europe and the United States. It shocks, and it compels.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Author's Note xi
Part One The Ancestry Of Dragons
Of Red Eyebrows and Iron Shins
3(9)
The T'ien-ti Hui
12(5)
The Birth of the Triads
17(5)
Hung Hsiu-ch'uan, Yasoo and the Red Turban Rebels
22(6)
Vegetarians, Rice Christians and Foreign Devils
28(17)
Part Two Politicians, Warlords and Gangsters
Dr Sun and the New Empire
45(19)
Nationalists, Communists and Crooks
64(19)
The Government Gang
83(24)
Part Three in the City of Willows
The Legend of the Monks of Shao Lin
107(15)
`The City of Willows'
122(7)
Passing the Mountain of Knives
129(14)
Part Four Snake-Heads and Syndicates
On the Shores of the Fragrant Harbour
143(26)
In the Shadow of the Nine Dragons
169(34)
Tigers, Tin Mines and Triads
203(18)
The Turning of the Triad Buck
221(41)
From Fei Jai to Financier
262(9)
Part Five Conquering Barbaria
The Sieve, the Unicorn and 'Mao Tse-tung'
271(13)
A Not-too-dissimilar Island
284(12)
Climbers on the Golden Mountain
296(21)
Pocket Rats, Lions' Bones and Waking Bears
317(6)
Old Emperors, New Empires
323(17)
Bibliography 340(5)
Index 345

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