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Book Some account of a secret association in China entitled  The Triad Society  By W  Milne  Communicated by the Revd  Robert Morrison   With two lithographed plates

Download or read book Some account of a secret association in China entitled The Triad Society By W Milne Communicated by the Revd Robert Morrison With two lithographed plates written by William MILNE (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Some Account of a Secret Association in China

Download or read book Some Account of a Secret Association in China written by William Milne and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Triad Societies  Selected writings

Download or read book Triad Societies Selected writings written by Kingsley Bolton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Triad Society

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  • Author : William Stanton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-12-21
  • ISBN : 9781944175214
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book The Triad Society written by William Stanton and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanton's work contains no less than 739 Chinese characters or expressions that have been cross-checked and transliterated into pinyin and 14 illustrations. This work covers - The White Lotus (bai lian jiao 白蓮教) and other Secret Societies; The Triad Society in China; The Triad Society Outside of China; The Traditional Account of the Society's Origin; Lodge-Rooms, Officers and Initiatory Ceremonies; Certificates of Membership; Forms of Writing and Cant Words Employed; Signs and Test Words; Appendix - The Thirty Oaths.

Book Memoirs of     William Milne  late missionary to China and principal of the Anglo Chinese college  compiled fron documents written by the deceased  by R  Morrison

Download or read book Memoirs of William Milne late missionary to China and principal of the Anglo Chinese college compiled fron documents written by the deceased by R Morrison written by William Milne and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Triad Societies

Download or read book Triad Societies written by Kingsley Bolton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books

Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thian Ti Hwui

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  • Author : Gustave Schlegel
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2015-06-17
  • ISBN : 9781330351321
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Thian Ti Hwui written by Gustave Schlegel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thian Ti Hwui: The Hung League or Heaven-Earth-League, a Secret a Secret Society With the Chinese in China and India It is a known fact that secret societies not only exist in China itself, but also with the Chinese in the Colonies, where they lead very often to a tacit resistance against the laws of the land, or even to revolt. In the spring of the year 1863, a lot of books were, very accidentally, found by the police in the house of a Chinaman suspected of theft at Padang (Sumatra), which proved the existence of a secret society at that place, numbering about 200 members. These books, containing the laws, statutes, oath, mysteries of initiation, catechism, description of flags, symbols and secret signs etc., etc., were placed officially into my hands for translation. Most of these books were, at the time, quite unintelligible to me and, as the case pressed, I had no leisure to study them more thoroughly. I requested, however, the Government to return these books to me after the decision of the case, and to place all Chinese and foreign documents relating to Chinese secret societies in the N. I. Archipelago at my disposal, as I hoped to be enabled, in that way, to find out the secrets of those societies. Government acceded liberally to this request, and ordered all such books, it found, to be delivered to me. In this way we got, besides the books found in Padang, a Chinese book full of drawings, found in 1851 at Japara (Java), with the statutes of the Shantung-branch; a memorial concerning seven friendly societies found in Palembang (Sumatra) and a copy of Dr. Milne's account of the Triad-society. The most valuable contributions, however, were two Chinese manuscripts presented to the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences by Mr. Teysman, of Buitenzorg, containing the whole Catechism, History, description of the rites, lodges, flags, secret signs and implements, enriched with a series of drawings; both which books were kindly placed at my disposal by the above named society. I am indebted also to my colleague, M. von Faber, Esq., for the loan of a print on linen of the diploma of the brotherhood, obtained from Montrado, and to the Resident of Rhio, E. Netscher, Esq., for the loan of half a dozen similar diplomas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Triad Societies  Thian Ti Hwui  The Hung league or Heaven earth league   a secret society with the Chinese in China and India

Download or read book Triad Societies Thian Ti Hwui The Hung league or Heaven earth league a secret society with the Chinese in China and India written by Kingsley Bolton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue  phase 1  1816 1870

Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue phase 1 1816 1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memoirs of the Rev  William Milne  D D   Late Missionary to China

Download or read book Memoirs of the Rev William Milne D D Late Missionary to China written by William Milne and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Their Own Terms

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  • Author : Benjamin A. Elman
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-07-01
  • ISBN : 0674036476
  • Pages : 606 pages

Download or read book On Their Own Terms written by Benjamin A. Elman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.

Book Sojourners and Settlers

Download or read book Sojourners and Settlers written by Clarence E. Glick and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many groups of Chinese who migrated from their ancestral homeland in the nineteenth century, none found a more favorable situation that those who came to Hawaii. Coming from South China, largely as laborers for sugar plantations and Chinese rice plantations but also as independent merchants and craftsmen, they arrived at a time when the tiny Polynesian kingdom was being drawn into an international economic, political, and cultural world. Sojourners and Settlers traces the waves of Chinese immigration, the plantation experience, and movement into urban occupations. Important for the migrants were their close ties with indigenous Hawaiians, hundreds establishing families with Hawaiian wives. Other migrants brought Chinese wives to the islands. Though many early Chinese families lived in the section of Honolulu called "Chinatown," this was never an exclusively Chinese place of residence, and under Hawaii's relatively open pattern of ethnic relations Chinese families rapidly became dispersed throughout Honolulu. Chinatown was, however, a nucleus for Chinese business, cultural, and organizational activities. More than two hundred organizations were formed by the migrants to provide mutual aid, to respond to discrimination under the monarchy and later under American laws, and to establish their status among other Chinese and Hawaii's multiethnic community. Professor Glick skillfully describes the organizational network in all its subtlety. He also examines the social apparatus of migrant existence: families, celebrations, newspapers, schools--in short, the way of life. Using a sociological framework, the author provides a fascinating account of the migrant settlers' transformation from villagers bound by ancestral clan and tradition into participants in a mobile, largely Westernized social order.

Book The Encyclopaedia Sinica

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Sinica written by Samuel Couling and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asian Settler Colonialism

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  • Author : Jonathan Y. Okamura
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2008-08-31
  • ISBN : 0824861515
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Asian Settler Colonialism written by Jonathan Y. Okamura and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian Settler Colonialism is a groundbreaking collection that examines the roles of Asians as settlers in Hawai‘i. Contributors from various fields and disciplines investigate aspects of Asian settler colonialism to illustrate its diverse operations and impact on Native Hawaiians. Essays range from analyses of Japanese, Korean, and Filipino settlement to accounts of Asian settler practices in the legislature, the prison industrial complex, and the U.S. military to critiques of Asian settlers’ claims to Hawai‘i in literature and the visual arts.