Translation of a work by Hirayama Shu, one of the basic texts in the study of Chinese secret societies., The China Journal, Vol. IX, No.4 (October, 1928), pp. 164-170; Vol. IX, No.5 (November, 1928), pp.215-221; Vol. IX, No.6 (December, 1928), pp. 276-282; Vol. X, No.1 (January, 1929), pp. 12-16.
Analysis of the characteristics of Chinese secret societies, the uses to which the are put by the Kuomintang, the Communists, and the Japanese, as well as their potentialities in opposing the Japanese
