The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949
by
Di Wang
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter. Six years later, Shen Baoyuan, a sociology student at Yenching University, arrived in the town to conduct fieldwork on the society...