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  2. Tong Wars - Wikipedia

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    Often, a tong war began over a woman, whether the failure of one tong to fully pay another tong for a slave-girl (as in the case of the Bing On Tong–Wah Sin San Fan Tong War) or simply because of limited number of Chinese women in the area during the time (Hop Sing Tong–Suey Sing Tong War). Other tong wars started due to issues from ...

  3. Tong (organization) - Wikipedia

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    The "Tong Wars" of the 19th and early 20th centuries were often based on control of these women. [2] In the early years the tongs employed "hatchet men" or boo how doy ( Chinese : 斧頭仔 ), also called highbinders , as hired killers to fight the street battles that ensued over turf, business and women.

  4. List of conflicts in Asia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of wars and conflicts in Asia, particularly East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Russia.For a list of conflicts in Southwest Asia, Asia Pacific. see List of conflicts in the Near East for historical conflicts and List of conflicts in the Middle East, List of conflicts in Australia (related Asia Pacific) for contemporary conflicts.

  5. Hip Sing Association - Wikipedia

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    The Hip Sing Tong, along with their rivals the Four Brothers and the On Leong Tong, would be involved in violent Tong wars for control of Chinatown during the early 1900s. During the 1930s and 1940s, the Hip Sings were involved in drug trafficking operations with the Kuomintang (KMT) and later the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). [ 1 ]

  6. Chinese Camp, California - Wikipedia

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    An 1892 Tuolumne County history indicates that, in 1856, four of the six Chinese companies (protective associations) had agents here and that the first tong war (between the Sam Yap and Yan Woo tongs) was fought near here when the population of the area totaled several thousand. The actual location is several miles away, past the 'red hills ...

  7. Social issues in Chinatowns - Wikipedia

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    In North America, Chinese American street gangs often have connections with the tongs and triads. Examples of such street gangs include the Joe Boys and Jackson Street Boys, which are named after the major street of San Francisco's Chinatown. [3] [4] Turf wars have been common in the older Chinatowns. Gang rivalry among Chinatown gangs has ...

  8. Bing Kong Tong - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. List of non-international armed conflicts - Wikipedia

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    The Latin term bellum civile, meaning in English, civil war, was used to describe wars within a single community beginning around 60 A.D.The term is an alternative title for the work sometimes called Pharsalia by Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) about the Roman civil wars that began in the last third of the second century BC. [2]