The Dragon Syndicates The Global Phenomenon of the Triads 1st Edition by Martin Booth ISBN 0786708697 9780786708697

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ISBN 10: 0786708697 

ISBN 13: 9780786708697

Author: Martin Booth 

With unflinching candor, Martin Booth — Booker Prize nominee and author of the critically acclaimed Opium: A History — here unfolds the full story of the Chinese Triads, which, according to UN sources, now pose the greatest potential criminal threat the world has ever known. From San Francisco to Amsterdam to Bangkok to Johannesburg, everywhere, everyday, the Triads are turning crimes like extortion, gambling, international prostitution, illegal immigrant smuggling, money laundering, fraud, corruption, arms, and narcotics into vast profits. This comprehensive history of the Triads traces their evolution over more than two thousand years from obscure parochial Chinese brotherhoods to an international criminal organization. It examines the archaic quasi-religious rituals that have for centuries bound the members of this now global fraternity. It recounts the exploits of patriots and outlaws. It explores the Triads’ instigation of the Tong Wars in America, their collaboration with the Allies against the Japanese in Malaya, their collusion with the CIA in Vietnam. It chronicles their escalation of the heroin trade to Europe and the United States. It shocks, and it compels.

Table of contents:

PART ONE: THE ANCESTRY OF DRAGONS
1 Of Red Eyebrows and Iron Shins
2. The T’ien-ti Hui
3 The Birth of the Triads
4 Hung Hsiu-ch’uan, Yasoo and the Red Turban Rebels
5 Vegetarians, Rice Christians and Foreign Devils

PART TWO: POLITICIANS, WARLORDS AND GANGSTERS
1 Dr Sun and the New Empire
2 Nationalists, Communists and Crooks
3 The Government Gang

PART THREE: IN THE CITY OF WILLOWS
1 The Legend of the Monks of Shao Lin
2 ‘The City of Willows
3 Passing the Mountain of Knives

PART FOUR: SNAKE-HEADS AND SYNDICATES
1 On the Shores of the Fragrant Harbour
2 In the Shadow of the Nine Dragons
3 Tigers, Tin Mines and Triads
4 The Turning of the Triad Buck
5 From Fei Jai to Financier

PART FIVE: CONQUERING BARBARIA
1 The Sieve, the Unicorn and ‘Mao Tse-tung’
2 A Not-too-dissimilar Island
3 Climbers on the Golden Mountain
4 Pocket Rats, Lions’ Bones and Waking Bears
5 Old Emperors, New Empires
Bibliography
Index

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