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Was the Shanghai Green Gang in Republican China a criminal syndicate typical of the new capitalist economy or a cultural succession of traditional secret society? Wei Luo argues that the Gang successfully reframed its violence as revolutionary, nationalistic & redistributive. Open access in Social Science History
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2022.42
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