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Book Secret Societies in Singapore

Download or read book Secret Societies in Singapore written by Irene Lim and published by National Heritage Board Singapore History Museum. This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sociology of Secret Societies

Download or read book The Sociology of Secret Societies written by Lau-Fong Mak and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1981 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Triads

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  • Author : Cheryl-Ann Low
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Chinese Triads written by Cheryl-Ann Low and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Secret Societies in Singapore

Download or read book Chinese Secret Societies in Singapore written by Singapore. Police Force and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Secret Societies in Singapore

Download or read book Secret Societies in Singapore written by Jin Hoe Ong and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Triads

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  • Author : Leon Comber
  • Publisher : Talisman: Singapore Heritage Society
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9789810814670
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Triads written by Leon Comber and published by Talisman: Singapore Heritage Society. This book was released on 2009 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Secret societies in Singapore

Download or read book Secret societies in Singapore written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Secret Societies Reconsidered  Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia

Download or read book Secret Societies Reconsidered Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia written by David Ownby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

Book Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya

Download or read book Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya written by Leon Comber and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Introduction to Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya

Download or read book An Introduction to Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya written by Leon Comber and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dialectics of Secret Society Power in States

Download or read book The Dialectics of Secret Society Power in States written by Stanton K. Tefft and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Dialectics of Secret Society Power in States explores a fascinating problem neglected by social science for many years, the political role of secret societies in state systems. Through a comparative study of secret society activity in five states, this book provides a penetrating analysis of the dynamics of state-secret society power relations. The five states and corresponding secret societies presented in this study are: Liberia (Poro and Sande), Ottoman Turks (Bektashi), Ching China ( White Lotus), Malaysia (Triad), and South Africa (Broederbond)." "Unique to this book is the portrayal of secret societies as organizations responsive to the conflicts generated by structural contradictions within state systems and the larger social systems of which states are integral units. Unlike earlier studies of secret orders that provide largely descriptive accounts of secret organizations and their rituals, The Dialectics of Secret Society Power in States clearly identifies the nature of the conflicts in which secret societies are involved and shows how this involvement impacts on the secret order and its power relations with the state." "This study also presents an integrated theoretical assessment of secret societies as both products of, as well as forces for, sociopolitical change. It will be of particular interest to political anthropologists and political sociologists, as well as those studying social and revolutionary movements in Asia and Africa."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Triad Societies

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  • Author : Kingsley Bolton
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780415243971
  • Pages : 618 pages

Download or read book Triad Societies written by Kingsley Bolton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 618 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 Power of Ritual in Prehistory

Download or read book The Power of Ritual in Prehistory written by Brian Hayden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.

Book A General History Of The Chinese In Singapore

Download or read book A General History Of The Chinese In Singapore written by Chong Guan Kwa and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A General History of the Chinese in Singapore documents over 700 years of Chinese history in Singapore, from Chinese presence in the region through the millennium-old Hokkien trading world to the waves of mass migration that came after the establishment of a British settlement, and through to the development and birth of the nation. Across 38 chapters and parts, readers are taken through the complex historical mosaic of Overseas Chinese social, economic and political activity in Singapore and the region, such as the development of maritime junk trade, plantation industries, and coolie labour, the role of different bangs, clan associations and secret societies as well as Chinese leaders, the diverging political allegiances including Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities and the National Salvation Movement leading up to the Second World War, the transplanting of traditional Chinese religions, the changing identity of the Overseas Chinese, and the developments in language and education policies, publishing, arts, and more.With 'Pride in our Past, Legacy for our Future' as its key objective, this volume aims to preserve the Singapore Chinese story, history and heritage for future generations, as well as keep our cultures and traditions alive. Therefore, the book aims to serve as a comprehensive guide for Singaporeans, new immigrants and foreigners to have an epitome of the Singapore society. This publication is supported by the National Heritage Board's Heritage Project Grant.Related Link(s)

Book Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes

Download or read book Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes written by Anoma Pieris and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, the colonial Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang, and Melaka were established as free ports of British trade in Southeast Asia and proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. Following the abolishment of slavery in 1833, the Straits government transported convicts from the East India Company’s Indian presidencies to the settlements as a source of inexpensive labor. The prison became the primary experimental site for the colonial plural society and convicts were graduated by race and the labor needed for urban construction. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes investigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. It relates the story of a city, Singapore, and a contemporary city-state whose plural society has its origins in these historical divisions. A description of the evolution of the ideal plan for a plural city across the three settlements is followed by a detailed look at Singapore’s colonial prison. Chapters trace the prison’s development and its dissolution across the urban landscape through the penal labor system. The author demonstrates the way in which racial politics were inscribed spatially in the division of penal facilities and how the map of the city was reconfigured through convict labor. Later chapters describe penal resistance first through intimate stories of penal life and then through a discussion of organized resistance in festival riots. Eventually, the plural city ideal collapsed into the hegemonic urban form of the citadel, where a quite different military vision of the city became evident. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes is a fascinating and thoroughly original study in urban history and the making of multiethnic society in Singapore. It will compel readers to rethink the ways in which colonial urban history, postcolonial urbanism, and governance have been theorized by scholars and represented by governments.