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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.
This was the death knell for the warring tongs, as many of their staple sources of income never were able to come back. Recovery was slow, most tongs just simply went away with the old Chinatown. The Kwong Duck tong, boasted its one-member after the earthquake, Wong Sing, who held the tong seal, books, flag, and all offices.
The Hip Sing Association or HSA (Chinese: 協勝公會; Jyutping: hip3 sing3 gung1 wui2), formerly known as the Hip Sing Tong (Chinese: 協勝堂; Jyutping: hip3 sing3 tong4), is a Chinese-American criminal organization/gang formed as a labor organization in New York City's Chinatown during the early 20th century (perhaps c. 1904).
Established in November 1893, the tong fought a violent war for control of Chinatown's rackets and businesses with the Hip Sing Tong. In recent years, the Tong has been linked to the Ghost Shadows street gang led by Wing Yeung Chan. Currently, there are over 30,000 registered On Leong members, the majority of whom have a commercial or ...
The Bing Kong Tong (Chinese: 秉公堂; Jyutping: bing2 gung1 tong4; pinyin: Bǐnggōng Táng) was one of the most powerful Tongs in San Francisco's Chinatown during the early 20th century. Since most immigrants from China to the United States during the 19th century were from the province of Guangdong , Chinatowns founded at that time used ...
The 27 clubs in Chinatown are part of an umbrella organization called the Chinese ... Like Hop Sing Tong, Bing Kong Tong dates from Chinatown's earliest days in the late 19th century and has a ...
Mock Duck arrived in the United States during the late 1890s, settling in New York's Chinatown, where he formed the Hip Sing Tong, a minor criminal organization. Within a few years, Mock Duck challenged Tom Lee [1] and the On Leong Tong to control criminal activities in Chinatown, and hold the police and political protection of Tammany Hall.
The owners of the building fought its destruction in court, and Hop Sing Tong’s last resident, Billy Fong, a former cook at Chinatown’s most popular restaurant, Shanghai-Low Cafe, refused to ...