Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949
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In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter. Six years later, Shen Baoyuan, a sociology student at Yenching University, arrived in the town to conduct fieldwork on the society that once held sway over local matters. She got to know Lei Mingyuan and his family, recording many rare insights about the murder and the Gowned...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1503604837
ISBN13:9781503604834
Release Date:March 2018
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"
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