Chesneaux Jean (ed.) Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China, 1840-1950

Stanford University Press, 1986. — 328 p.Rev. translation of Mouvements populaires et sociétés secrètes en Chine aux XIXe et XXe siècles. These are the papers of the sessions on modern Chinese secret societies held within the 17th Congress of Chinese studies, held in 1965, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.Secret Societies in China’s Historical Evolution.
Some Religious Aspects of Secret Societies..
The Secret Societies of Kwangtung, 1800-1856.
The Anti-Manchu Propaganda of the Triads, ca. 1800-1860.
Taiping Relations with Secret Societies and with Other Rebels.
The Making of a Rebel: Liu Yung-fu and the Formation of the Black Flag Army.
Some Notes on the Ko-lao Hui in Late Ch’ing China.
The Ko-lao Hui and the Anti-Foreign Incidents of 1891.
The Hung Hu-tzu of Northeast China.
Notes on the Early Role of Secret Societies in Sun Yat-sen’s Republican Movement.
Triads, Salt Smugglers, and Local Uprisings: Observations on the Social and Economic Background of the Waichow Revolution of 1911.
Secret Societies, Popular Movements, and the 1911 Revolution.
The Red Spears in the Late 1920s.
Secret Societies and Peasant Self-Defense, 1921-1933.
The I-kuan Tao Society.
Notes.
Bibliography of Works Concerning Secret Societies.
Glossaries.