"Secret Societies" Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Modern South China and Southeast Asia

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M.E. Sharpe, 1993 - 259 頁

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Introduction Secret Societies Reconsidered
1
Chinese Hui and the Early Modern Social Order Evidence from EighteenthCentury Southeast China
32
Chinese Organizations in West Borneo and Bangka Kongsis and Hui
66
The Rise and Fall of the Ngee Heng Kongsi in Singapore
87
Chinese Culture and Polity in NineteenthCentury Malaya The Case of Yap Ah Loy
118
Messianism and the Heaven and Earth Society Approaches to Heaven and Earth Society Texts
151
Migration Protection and Racketeering The Spread of the Tiandihui within China
175
Brotherhoods Secret Societies and the Law in QingDynasty China
188
Epilogue Ritual Process Reconsidered
210
Glossary
233
Index
247
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第 222 頁 - I think that capacity for governing is a characteristic of our race, and it is wonderful to see in a country like the Straits, a handful of Englishmen and Europeans, a large and rich Chinese community, tens of thousands of Chinese of the lowest coolie class, Arab and Parsee merchants, Malays of all ranks, and a sprinkling of all nationalities, living together in wonderful peace and contentment. It always seems to me that the common Chinese feeling is that we — an eccentric race — were created...
第 222 頁 - Many of our oaths and ceremonies are needless, and obsolete, as under the British Government there is no necessity for some of the rules, and the laws of this country do not allow us to carry out others ; the ritual is however retained for old custom's sake. "The real benefits you will receive by joining our Society, are, that if outsiders oppress you, or in case you get into trouble, on application to the Headmen, they will in minor cases take you to the Registrars of Secret Societies, the Inspector...
第 219 頁 - East from whom a revenue may be raised without expense and extraordinary efforts of Government. " They are a valuable acquisition, but speaking a language which no other people understand they are able to form parties and combinations in the most secret manner against any regulations of Government which they disapprove, and were they as brave as intelligent they would be dangerous subjects, but their want of courage will make them bear many impositions before they rebel.
第 83 頁 - Montrado. Geschied- en Krijgskundige bijdrage betreffende de onderwerping der Chinezen op Borneo. Naar het dagboek van een Indisch officier over 1854 — 1856; door WA van Rees.
第 102 頁 - ... might be affected ; and by screening and sheltering any of their fraternity, though guilty of the most heinous crimes. They are even strongly suspected of concerting and executing most daring robberies and murders, particularly at Singapore, where a large body resides among the jungles and fastnesses in the interior of the island. This body consists chiefly of the emigrants from Canton, and there does not exist much good-will between it and the Fokien society, lately established in the town of...
第 222 頁 - ... wonderful peace and contentment. It always seems to me that the common Chinese feeling is that we — an eccentric race — were created to govern and look after them, as a groom looks after a horse, whilst they were created to get rich and enjoy the good things of the earth. Be my theory true or no, the fact remains that the general purity and high tone of our service is a main secret of our remarkable influence over the Malay races, an influence that cannot be approached by that of any other...
第 25 頁 - China, their activities in Malaya have included the organisation^ of opposition to the government; the stirring up of anti-foreign feeling; the formation of self-protection units against robber gangs; the "protection" and extortion of money from hawkers, '( shopkeepers, hotelkeepers, prostitutes, labourers, opium and gambling dens; kidnapping for ransom; and the operation of criminal rings and rackets.

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