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Thian ti hwui

The Hung-league, or Heaven-earth-league, a secret society with the Chinese in China and India

by Gustaaf Schlegel

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: Chinese, English

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Traditions: Initiatory orders and secret societies

Subjects: India, China, Hung men (Secret societies), Triads (Organized crime), Hong men (Society), Hung men (Society), Triad Society

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  • Controlled discovery queries from national-library-of-scotland and openlibrary-historical matched “secret societies” and “Secret societies”. Retained metadata contains “Secret societies” in the subject metadata.

    • secret societies· via National Library of Scotland
    • Secret societies· via Open Library
    • Secret societies· in subject

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The Hung-league or Heaven-earth-league : a secret society with the Chinese in China and India

National Bibliography of Scotland record

23 cm; First part of title, Thian ti hwui, also in Chinese; ill; Originally published: 1866; xl, 253, xiv [i.e. xv] p

1991Tynron PressEnglish
  • 1856460495
Catalog record

The Hung-league, or Heaven-earth-league, a secret society with the Chinese in China and India

Open Library record

1974AMS PressEnglish
  • 9780404112226
  • 0404112226
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  • Open Library reports 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL7202339W
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