Triad Societies

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 Heaven" "and 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