Triad Societies: Western Accounts of the History, Sociology and Linguistics of Chinese Secret Societies (Colonial Encounters)

This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries and colonial officials, and reprints the following works: * Thian Ti Hwui: The Hung League [1866] Gustave Schlegel * Freemasonry in China [1880] Herbert Allen Giles * The Triad Society [1900] Inspector William Stanton * The Hung Society, or The Society of Heavenand Earth [1956] originally published in 3 volumes, John S. M. Ward and William Stirling * Triad and Tabut: A Survey of the Origin and Diffusion of Chinese and Mohamedan Secret Societies in the Malay Peninsula 1800-1935 [1941] Mervyn Llewelyn Wynne * Triad Societies in Hong Kong [1960] W.P. Morgan