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Hop Sing Tong Building, San Francisco Chinatown. A tong (Chinese: 堂; pinyin: táng; Jyutping: tong4; Cantonese Yale: tòhng; lit. 'hall') [1]: 53 is a type of organization found among Chinese immigrants predominantly living in the United States, with smaller numbers in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
Hongmen seal, 19th century Amoy [1] Hongmen seal, 19th century Guangdong. The Tiandihui, the Heaven and Earth Society, also called Hongmen (the Vast Family), is a Chinese fraternal organization and historically a secretive folk religious sect in the vein of the Ming loyalist White Lotus Sect, the Tiandihui's ancestral organization. [2]
The 1987 edition, coauthored by Remi Kauffer, was translated into English by Christine Donougher in 1989 with a title that references Chinese spymaster Kang Sheng, as The Chinese Secret Service: Kang Sheng and the Shadow Government in Red China (ISBN 0-688-09722-7). [3]
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The exodus of ethnic Chinese from Chinatowns and their gradual acculturation into the larger society has caused some loss of revenue. Elderly Chinese-speaking customers remain in Chinatowns and patronize Chinatown businesses, but without a large immigrant and descendant population to sustain their communities, Chinatowns increasingly rely on ...
That company, Scripps News learned through a collaboration with open-source intelligence research group Strike Source, is owned by Yibai, another Chinese business whose leaders are members of ...
SUDOKU. Play the USA TODAY Sudoku Game.. JUMBLE. Jumbles: VINYL GULCH RADISH OPAQUE. Answer: The pharaoh commissioned an artist to decorate his tomb. The result was — “HIRE-O-GLYPHICS”