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Tong (organization)

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A tong is a type of organization found among Chinese immigrants living in the United States and Canada. [1]

36 relations: Auditor, Bing Kong Tong, California, Canada, China, Chinatown, Chinatown, San Francisco, Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, Chinese language, Forced prostitution, Fraternal order, Guangdong, Hakka people, Hip Sing Association, Hong Kong, Hop Sing Tong, Hui (secret society), Kuomintang, List of Chinese criminal organizations, List of criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates, Manchu people, Ming dynasty, Northern and southern China, On Leong Chinese Merchants Association, Qing dynasty, San Francisco, San Francisco plague of 1900–1904, Secret society, Southeast Asia, Suey Sing Association, Tiandihui, Tong Wars, Triad (organized crime), United States.

Auditor

An auditor is a person or a firm appointed by a company to execute an audit.

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Bing Kong Tong

The Bing Kong Tong was one of the powerful Tongs in San Francisco's Chinatown during the early 20th century.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chinatown

A Chinatown is an ethnic enclave of Chinese or Han people located outside mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan, most often in an urban setting.

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Chinatown, San Francisco

The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, is the oldest Chinatown in North America and the largest Chinese enclave outside Asia.

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Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association

The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) (in the Western United States, Midwest, and Western Canada; 中華公所 (中华公所) zhōnghuá gōngsuǒ (Jyutping: zung1wa4 gung1so2) in the East) is a historical Chinese Association established in various parts of the United States and Canada with large populations of Chinese.

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Chinese Exclusion Act

The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.

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Chinese Immigration Act, 1923

The Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, known today as the Chinese Exclusion Act, was an act passed by the Parliament of Canada, banning most forms of Chinese immigration to Canada.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Forced prostitution

Forced prostitution, also known as involuntary prostitution, is prostitution or sexual slavery that takes place as a result of coercion by a third party.

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Fraternal order

A fraternal order is a fraternity organised as an order, with traits alluding to religious, chivalric or pseudo-chivalric orders, guilds, or secret societies.

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Guangdong

Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.

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Hakka people

The Hakkas, sometimes Hakka Han, are Han Chinese people whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Hainan and Guizhou.

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Hip Sing Association

The Hip Sing Association or HSA, formerly known as the Hip Sing Tong, is a Chinese-American criminal organization gang based in New York's Chinatown during the early 20th century.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Hop Sing Tong

The Hop Sing Tong is a Chinese American Tong that was established in 1875.

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Hui (secret society)

Hui is a Chinese word, generally meaning 'conference', but which is sometimes used to refer to a secret society.

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Kuomintang

The Kuomintang of China (KMT; often translated as the Nationalist Party of China) is a major political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, based in Taipei and is currently the opposition political party in the Legislative Yuan.

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List of Chinese criminal organizations

Criminal gangs are found throughout China but are most active in Chongqing, Shanghai, Macau, Tianjin, Shenyang, and Guangzhou as well as in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.

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List of criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates

This is a listing of enterprises, gangs, and syndicates that are involved in organized crime.

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Manchu people

The Manchu are an ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China – then known as the – for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Northern and southern China

Northern China and southern China are two approximate regions within China. The exact boundary between these two regions are not precisely defined. Nevertheless, the self-perception of Chinese people, especially regional stereotypes, has often been dominated by these two concepts, given that regional differences in culture and language have historically fostered strong regional identities of the Chinese people.

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On Leong Chinese Merchants Association

The On Leong Chinese Merchants Association or simply Chinese Merchants Association, formerly known as the On Leong Tong, is a tong society operating out of its territory in Mott Street in New York's Chinatown.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco plague of 1900–1904

The San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 was an epidemic of bubonic plague centered on San Francisco's Chinatown.

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Secret society

A secret society is a club or an organization whose activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed from non-members.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.

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Suey Sing Association

The Suey Sing Association is a historical Chinese American association that was established in 1867.

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Tiandihui

The Tiandihui, literally the Society of the Heaven and the Earth, also called Hongmen 洪門 (the Vast Family), is a Chinese fraternal organisation and secretive folk religious sect.

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Tong Wars

The Tong Wars were a series of violent disputes beginning in the 1880s among rival Chinese Tong factions centered in the Chinatowns of various American cities, in particular San Francisco.

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Triad (organized crime)

A triad is one of many branches of Chinese transnational organized crime syndicates based in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan and in countries with significant Chinese populations, such as the United States, Canada, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain, South Africa, Australia, Brazil and New Zealand.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tong_(organization)

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