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- Title
Die Schlägergilden (dahang) von Jiangnan.
- Authors
Kolb, Raimund Th.
- Abstract
From the early 15th century onward gangs called dahang (guilds of punchers), especially well acquainted with martial arts, enriched the scenery of deviant subcultures everywhere in China. These young bachelors, virile and aggressive rogues predominantly from the lower strata of society, linked to criminal local networks, time and again disrupted the public order in urban spaces as well as in the countryside. Probably there was an especially great demand for their violent services in the well-off society of Jiangnan at the lower reaches of the Yangzi-River. Bands of thugs, hired by local despots and cadres in the People's Republic today, attacking people who protest against corruption, dispossession and injustice, are part of this violent tradition and everyday experience in Chinese society.
- Subjects
CHINA; GANGS; YOUTH gangs; CHINESE martial arts; CRIME; GANG violence; GAMBLING; SEX work; PRIVATE security services; CHINESE history, 960-1644; SOCIAL conditions in China; QING dynasty, China, 1644-1912; HISTORY; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Historische Anthropologie, 2014, Vol 22, Issue 2, p210
- ISSN
0942-8704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7788/ha-2014-0204