Green Gang

Others, however, called Curio Chang “one of the most sinister characters in the Revolutionary Movement,” due to his close ties with the Shanghai underworld, most of whom belonged to the powerful secret society known as the Green Gang.

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This is what normal people now expect -- ideological rantings come and go, but Green Gang extremists bloviate forever.

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Nevertheless, when their opium monopoly fell through and the leaders of the Green Gang demanded a refund—they had paid the government 6 million yuan in start-up money—T.V. offered them payment in government bonds, which he and unfortunately Du knew were worthless.

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At 4:00 A.M. on the twelfth, a shotgun went off in the French Concession, followed by the whistle of a gunboat, giving the signal for 1,500 members of the Green Gang, joined by specific units of the National Revolutionary Army, to attack the Communists at twenty-four places around the city.

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Members of the Green Gang traveled in trucks and armored cars supplied by the British, and in eight hours, the battle was over.

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Through Curio Chang, Chiang met other members of the Green Gang.

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Up until this time, Big-Eared Du and his Green Gang had controlled the opium trade in Shanghai.

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Members of the Green Gang competed with lesser bandits to steal shipments of opium while they were still in the harbor, the train station, or en route within the city from one building to another.

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There he came into contact with the lowest-rung members of the Green Gang, which he joined at the age of sixteen.

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The three most important secret societies in China were the Green Gang, centered in Shanghai; the Red Gang, which had started as an organization for sailors stopping off in port and operated in southern China; and the Society of Elder Brothers, strong in Szechuan and the Northwest.

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