Exam 7: Asia

What is the leader of a Triad known as?​

Secret Chinese societies have a long history in the United States,dating back to the mid-1850s in California.

What group was founded in 1947 by a Kuomintang general who fled with hundreds of his followers to Hong Kong after the Communist victory?​

_______________ is a term used to describe Japan's organized crime syndicates.The term itself means masterless samurai.​

Tongs were first established in the 1850s as benevolent societies in which U.S.city?​

The organized crime group known as United Bamboo was established in _____________ in 1956 and maintains strong ties to the Kuomintang Party of Communist China.​

Yakuza members are affiliated with all of the following groups except for:​

After Japan's defeat in WWII,the new yakuza that emerged was populated by unemployed veterans and was far more violent and materialistic than its prewar predecessors.

What is the primary and most important group in Chinese society?​

_____________ laborers were originally brought into the United States after 1848 to work in the gold fields.​

The infamous Triad group known as the _____________ has its origins in Communist China's Red Guard,Mao's personal militia established to enforce the "Great Cultural Revolution."

With elaborate tattoos and clipped fingers,_____________ have a long history in Japan and view themselves as more samurai than criminal.

Which of the following wars served to define the various yakuza groups?​

The 14K Triad group is the most organized within the Triad operation,with subgroups forming actual separate societies responsible for various illicit activities.

The Yamaguchi-gumi is the largest of the boryokudan ("violent groups"),organizations that constitute Japanese organized crime.​

The term yakuza is derived from a name of one of the most notorious samurai from the 1600s.​

The Chinese _____________ embraces many concepts,some familiar to Westerners,such as connections,networks,and patron-client relations.They are built upon a series of dyadic relationships,some that are naturally present and others that must be acquired,cultivated,and maintained.​

The term triad refers to the Chinese societies' common mystical symbol: an equilateral triangle representing the three basic Chinese concepts of heaven,earth,and man.

Which of the following is $\underline{\text{NOT}}$ one of the three basic Chinese concepts that represent the Triad?​

During the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth,Tong wars occurred on:​