Jewish Faces in the Chinese Government

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Jewish Faces in Chinese Government

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In days past, Jews were more careful to hide themselves in the political arena, preferring to work behind the scenes. But today, Jewish politicians increasingly fill government posts through the power of ethnic networking, the power of media control, and the power of money which can control the outcome of elections by image-crafting.

   Special Report: The Secret Role of Jews in China

Israel Epstein, second from right in front, standing in front of Mao. He later became the minister of appropriations, an extremely powerful position in a practically cashless era. To the right of him is another Jew, also under cover as a journalist



Epstein's cover was journalism. His parents were Russian Jews who were imprisoned in Siberia for espionage.



This is Israel Epstein chatting with Chairman Hu, just before his death.



"Rewi Alley," the man who organized communes in China before Chinese even knew they were to be ruled by Jewish communists (in the 1920's, well before 1949)


A closer look at Rewi Alley


Rewi hanging out with the supposedly ultra-powerful Zhou Enlai


  Mao in a high-level meeting with several Jews [Frank Coe, Israel Epstein, Elsie Fairfax-Cholmely, and Solomon Adler]


Mao with Sidney Rittenberg. Wikipedia claims he "observed" the upper levels of Chinese leadership:

Sidney Rittenberg (August 14, 1921; Chinese name: Lǐ Dūnbái 李敦白) is an American interpreter and scholar who lived in China from 1944 to 1979. He worked closely with People's Republic of China (PRC) founder Mao Zedong, military leader Zhu De, statesman Zhou Enlai, and other leaders of the Communist party during the war, and was with these central Communist leaders at Yan'an. He witnessed first-hand much of what occurred at upper levels of the CCP and knew many of its leaders personally. He was the first American citizen to join the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).


Sidney Rittenberg WPP group and Martin Sorrell

Rittenberg's connections and experience have enabled him to run a successful consultancy business representing some of the world's biggest brands, such as Intel, Levi Strauss, Microsoft, Hughes Aircraft and Teledesic.

1. Foreign nationals are not allowed to be naturalized as Chinese citizens. How did these Jews magically do it?

2. Rittenberg's "consultancy business" is in fact one of the largest, or largest, advertising agencies in the world. Was he the actual Chinese minister of propaganda?

A note about Mao: He was picked up to play puppet leader with resourced funneled through Yale University (whose symbol has Hebrew on it), in a Skull and Bones type scheme. The location was Yali Highschool in Changsha, Hunan Province - a branch of Yale. Mao was a disturbed young man - a completely controllable, blackmailable puppet for their purposes.

Sidney Shapiro, Israel Epstein and Chen Bidi getting a birthday party thrown by the politburo

From a Chinese article on the Jewish birthday party:

Three CPPCC [politburo] members with foreign origins celebrated their 90th birthday together at Jingfeng Hotel, one of the hotels in Beijing appointed for the NPC and CPPCC sessions, on March 8. Israel Epstein, Sidney Shapiro (Sha Boli) and Chen Bidi were born in Poland, the United States and Canada respectively, and they obtained Chinese nationality in 1957 and 1963. As experts who have long been working in the field of foreign publicity, they witnessed China's revolution and socialist modernization drive.


After retirement, they didn't stay idle but continued to participate actively in the discussion and management of state affairs. Many NPC deputies and CPPCC members attending the ongoing annual sessions went to their birthday party to express their best wishes.



Sidney Shapiro, politburo member (!). Chinese are allowed to call them foreigners (laowai), but they dare not mention that all of them are Jews


Virginius Frank Coe, Jewish operative in China. From wikipedia: Blacklisted...Coe sought work abroad, eventually finding...the People's Republic of China, where he joined a circle of expatriates working with the government. In 1962, he was joined by Solomon Adler in the circle. Coe participated in Mao's Great Leap Forward, a plan for the rapid industrialization and modernization of China. His works include articles justifying the Rectification campaign.    

George Sokolsky, Jewish columnist for Hearst appointed to stop Joseph McCarthy's housecleaning

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Richard Levin




Richard Charles Levin (born 1947) is a professor and American economist who has served as president of Yale University since 1993. He is currently the longest-tenured Ivy League president.

In 1982, he was promoted to Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Management.

Although described in Who's Who as a Democrat, Levin was one of the first guests of President George W. Bush in the White House during his first term and the president stayed at Levin's house when he received an honorary degree from Yale in 2001.

Levin has been praised during his tenure for an unparalleled expansion of the University's endowment and for overseeing an ambitious renovation plan. Yale's admissions standards and academic prestige have recovered from a significant lull in the early 1990s since Levin's appointment. Yale became the most selective undergraduate program in the Ivy League between 2004 and 2006 — though applications fell the next year, while they increased at Yale's competing institutions. Under Levin's leadership, Yale has been transforming itself into a truly global university, with a new flagship program for undergraduates in Beijing and a dramatic increase in international work/study programs. Closer to home, Levin's administration in 2003 negotiated unprecedented eight-year contracts with the university's unionized workers that provided free health care, extensive paid leave, and cumulative raises ranging from 32% to 43%. Levin has made it a point to expand Yale's engagement with China as was elected to the board of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.

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The National Committee on United States China Relations (NCUSCR)

Mission

For more than forty years, the National Committee has been at the forefront in building a foundation of mutual trust and collaboration between the United States and China by conducting exchange, educational and policy activities in areas of politics and security, education, governance and civil society, economic cooperation, media and transnational issues, addressing these issues with respect to mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.


Board of directors

Chair
Carla A. Hills (Council on Foreign Relations - George H. W. Bush administration cabinet members - Stanford University alumni | Yale Law School alumni)

Vice Chairmen
Maurice R. Greenberg( Council on Foreign Relations)

Lee H. Hamilton (Iraq Study Group - He sits on many advisory boards, including those to the CIA, the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council, and the United States Army. Hamilton is an Advisory Board member and Co-Chair for the Partnership for a Secure America. He is currently the president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and was appointed to serve as the vice chair of the 9/11 Commission. Hamilton endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Election.)

Thomas H. Kean (Kean is best known globally, however, for his 2002 appointment as Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, widely known as the 9/11 Commission, which was responsible for investigating the causes of the September 11, 2001 attacks and providing recommendations to prevent future terrorist attacks. He was appointed to this post by U.S. President George W. Bush. Upon the completion of his second term as Governor, he served as the president of Drew University for 15 years, until his retirement in 2005. )

Nicholas R. Lardy

Joseph W. Prueher (United States ambassadors to the People's Republic of China -  Prior to his posting as ambassador, Prueher was a United States Navy Admiral and the Commander, United States Pacific Command from 1996 to 1999 and Vice Chief of Naval Operations from 1995 to 1996.)

 William R. Rhodes (is the Senior Vice Chairman of Citigroup Inc. and the Chairman of Citigroup and Citibank. He is also Chairman of the Board of both the Americas Society and its affiliate, the Council of the Americas, which were originally founded by David Rockefeller in 1965, and is a board member of the Group of Thirty. Mr. Rhodes is a Director of ConocoPhillips; a Director of the Private Export Funding Corporation; Vice Chairman of the Institute of International Finance; Chairman of the Hong Kong-U.S. Business Council; Vice Chairman of the Board of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations; a Director of the US-Russia Business Council, and a member of South African President Thabo Mbeki's International Advisory Board and Colombian President Uribe's Advisory Board. Other board memberships include The Africa-America Institute, Foreign Policy Association, and the US-Egypt Presidents' Council.
He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Economic Club of New York, the Hong Kong / U.S. Business Council and a founding member of the U.S. National Advisory Council to the International Management Center in Budapest, Hungary. Mr. Rhodes is a past Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States; past Chairman of the U.S. section of the Venezuela-U.S. Business Council; past President of the Venezuela-American Chamber of Commerce; and past President of the Bankers Association for Foreign Trade.

He is a Governor and Trustee of The New York and Presbyterian Hospital; a member of the Lincoln Center Consolidated Corporate Fund Leadership Committee and a Vice Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Business Committee and Chairman's Committee. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the Northfield Mount Hermon School and a member of the Board of Overseers of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown. In 2007, Rhodes donated $10 million to Brown for the establishment of the Rhodes Center for International Economics at the Watson Institute)

 J. Stapleton Roy (was a senior United States diplomat specializing in Asian affairs. Roy is currently Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., Chairman of the Hopkins-Nanjing Advisory Council [http://sais-jhu.edu/Nanjing/index.html established to assist Hopkins' in its partnership with Nanjing University that jointly manages the Hopkins-Nanjing Center (a graduate degree granting institution on the Nanjing University campus in Nanjing, China), and a director of ConocoPhillips and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. He is also a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Co-Chair of The United States - Indonesia Society (USINDO). In August 2008, Ambassador Roy was named director of the Kissinger Institute for Chinese-US Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)

 James R. Sasser (was Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. From 1995 to 1999, during the Clinton Administration, he was the United States Ambassador to China.)

Treasurer
Keith W. Abell

Secretary
Terrill E. Lautz

Madeleine K. Albright Mary Brown Bullock Lincoln Chen Thomas J. Christensen Kathryn D. Christopherson Peter M. Cleveland Edward T. Cloonan Jerome A. Cohen Lorne W. Craner Nelson G. Dong Michael L. Ducker Richard Edelman Martin S. Feldstein Thomas Fingar Barbara H. Franklin Charles W. Freeman III Peter F. Geithner Louis V. Gerstner (Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire(, Jr. Thomas B. Gold Evan G. Greenberg Herbert J. Hansell Harry Harding Clifford E. Holland David A. Jones, Jr. Virginia Kamsky Muhtar Kent / where his father, Necdet Kent, was the Turkish consul-general (the elder Kent has been called "the Turkish Schindler" for having risked his life to save Jews during World War II). Henry A. Kissinger Geraldine S. Kunstadter David M. Lampton / (born 1946) is George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies at Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is Director of China Studies at SAIS. He is Former President of the National Committee on United States-China Relations in New York City. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the National Bureau of Asian Research./ Robert Leggat Richard C. Levin Cheng Li Kenneth Lieberthal ? is director of the John L. Thornton China Center and senior fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution. He was also Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asia at the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration.  / David R. Malpass Ken Miller Douglas H. Paal Clark T. Randt, Jr.  | Yale University alumni | Harvard Law School alumni | United States ambassadors to the People's Republic of China |  Charles S. Robb Daniel H. Rosen David L. Shambaugh Edward S. Steinfeld John L. Thornton is Professor and Director of Global Leadership at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is a former President and Co-COO of Goldman Sachs. In 1983, Thornton founded and developed Goldman Sachs' European mergers and acquisitions business. He served as co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International in London from 1995 to 1996. Thornton was Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia from 1996 to 1998, where he expanded the firm's regional franchise during the Asian financial crisis. Thornton is a director of Intel, Pacific Century Group, Ford Motor Company, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Netcom, and News Corporation. He is also Chairman of the Board of The Brookings Institution. Thornton is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, he serves as trustee or advisory board member for a wide range of organizations, including the Asia Society, China Institute, China Securities Regulatory Commission, the Eisenhower Fellowships, Financial Services Volunteer Corps, The Hotchkiss School, International Advisory Committee of the China Reform Forum, Morehouse College, National Committee on United States-China Relations, Nelson Mandela Legacy Foundation (US), Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Beijing), the Yale School of Management [1] and Co-Chairs the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation.In 2006, Thornton funded the establishment of the John L. Thornton China Center at the The Brookings Institution. In 2009, he also became a member of the International Advisory Council of the Chinese sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation.
/ Kellee S. Tsai I. Peter Wolff

Chairmen Emeriti

A. Doak Barnett

W. Michael Blumenthal ? / Jewish American politicians | Jews and Judaism in China | Jewish Chinese history | German Jews who emigrated to the United States to escape Nazism | Haas School of Business alumni | United States Secretaries of the Treasury | Princeton University alumni | American businesspeople


Barber B. Conable / was a U.S. Congressman and president of the World Bank.

 Jr. Alexander Eckstein

LucianW. Pye

Robert A. Scalapino / is an American political scientist particularly involved in East Asian studies. He was one of the founders and first chairman of the National Committee on United States – China Relations. Together with his co-author Chong-sik Lee, he won the 1974 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for  


Raymond P. Shafer

Charles W. Yost  / | Permanent Representatives of the United States to the United Nations | Princeton University alumni |Presidents of the United Nations Security Council.









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National Committee on United States – China Relations

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(China/Asia/Opium) Shanghai's Jews: Art, Architecture and "Survival" (Sassoon & Co)

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Who Controls the Council on Foreign Relations?

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Who Controls the Ivy League?

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Currency Wars, by Song Hongbing, is a bestselling book in China . . .

The book in HTML >
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china rothschild

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Soros China must be brought into the New World Order

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UN URGES CHINA AND RUSSIA TO DITCH U.S. DOLLAR IN UPCOMING MONTHS 7-2-2010

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[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Great post /tab.
 Puts it all in better perspective.  There are always a couple of audible 'clicks' as they turn the dial to take over a country...

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

CHINESE COMMUNISM? YES, but it was JEWISH when it started.

 

The following article by Arnold Leese is reprinted from Gothic Ripples, No. 49, dated 28th February, 1949. It shows that the seeds of Bolshevism were planted in China by Jews, who also tended and trained the growth that resulted. The corruption of the regime of Chiang Kai‑Shek caused many of the masses in China to turn to Communism for relief, since Chinese Communism is mixed with Nationalism and discourages the old Chinese curse of official corruption; but Communism in China has the same de­humanising effect on the people as it has elsewhere.

 

THE JEWISH ROTTING OF CHINA.

 

It was the Sassoon family which turned the normal Chinese dislike and distrust of foreigners into hatred. David Sassoon made the Opium Trade in China from 1832 until he died in 1864. His family carried on the Trade under our Flag and made huge fortunes. The British took the blame, and now the Chinese loathe us; just as we took the blame for the Jewish atrocities at Nurem­berg, Spandau and elsewhere in Germany, so that the Germans now hate us.

 

Backed by the Sassoons, the Shanghai Opium Monopoly existed until 1917 under the Jew Edward Ezra, its Managing Com­mittee being composed entirely of Jews and Indians. Not only did the British Flag protect the Sassoons in this abominable trade which the Manchus did all they could to prevent, even to the extent of war, but also these Jews were welcomed in England instead of being ostracised. Royalty petted them and they intermarried with Aryan aristocrats. Some became Baronets and one a Minister of the Government.

 

When the Freemason, Sun Yat‑Sen, began his revolutionary movement at Canton, the Jew Morris Cohen, a British subject, be­came his aide‑de‑camp and was sent by Sun around the globe to get military experts for his revolutionary army. On Sun Yat‑Sen's death bed this Jew was commended to Chiang Kai‑Shek and he was employed as liaison officer between the Canton Government and all foreign Consulates‑General. Cohen became known in China as Moi‑Sha, and was made Military Counsellor to the Cantonese Forces, and a General, although still a British subject.

 

As late as 1939, Cohen was travelling the high seas under the protection of our Flag. The last we heard of him was late in 1945 when he emerged from a Japanese prisoner‑of‑war camp. The South African Sunday Express described him as "the guiding genius behind the War‑Lords of China".

 

The Soviet Jew, Jacob Borodin (real name M. Grusenberg) was sent by the Kremlin with the Jew Joffe, in 1923, to try and bolshevise Sun Yat‑Sen and became Chief Political Adviser to the Kuomintang. His wife, a Jewess, spied in China for the Soviets. When Sun died, Borodin was left in charge and it was he who appointed Chiang Kai‑Shek to succeed Sun in 1926. However, in 1927 a raid was made by Chang Tso‑Ling on the Soviet Embassy at Pekin, which revealed the scope and extent of the Soviet plot to bolshevise China, and the Borodins were arrested and imprisoned.

 

In 1923 the notorious Jew, Trebitsch Lincoln, ex‑M.P. in Britain, headed a Chinese mission to get arms for Wu Pei Fu, a War‑Lord with a fine character, but failed, probably purposely, in the attempt. After that, Lincoln drifted about, too mistrusted in China for any other important role.

 

       The Soviet General, B. K. Galen, who was really a Jew called Chesin, and was nicknamed Blucher, accompanied the "Armenian" Soviet Delegate Karachan to Pekin in 1924 where a treaty was made with Chang Tso‑Ling by which the Chinese Eastern Railway was handed over to the Soviets. This placed the movement of troops at the mercy of the Bolsheviks. The intrigues and bribery by which this surrender by Chang Tso‑Ling was obtained were carried out through the medium of a Jewish timber magnate called S. Skidelski. At once, the Railway was placed in charge of the Jews Gekker, Koslowsky and Snamensky (Zamyensky). To continue with the career of General "Galen", he became Chief Military Adviser to Chiang Kai‑Shek in1926.

 

Now for the Soviet Jew S. A. Gekker: As early as 1922; he has been Military Adviser to the Mongolian Bolshevik Government, and in 1924 he was made Head Political Commissar on the Chinese Eastern Railway aforesaid. This appointment was at the hands of the Jew, M. D. Lashewitz, who was President of the Board of Railway Control in Moscow.

 

Nor must the Jew, A. Joffe, be forgotten. We have already met him as head of the Soviet Mission to Sun Yat‑Sen, when, with the Jew, Jacob Borodin, he tried to develop Sovietism. Later he became Political Adviser to Chiang Kai‑Shek in 1926 and orga­nised the Red Section of the Kuomintang.

 

High up in the Political Department of the Red Army in China were also the two Jews, W. N. Levitschev and J. B. Gamarnik, who in 1936 was its head.

 

The Nanking Ministry of Finance has always been dominated by Jews, viz: Kann, L. Rajchman and R. Haas. In England, the Jew Billmeir helped, with his merchant fleet, to take Soviet arms to China in 1938.

 

Finally, the Jew Ben Kizer (U.S.A.) was appointed head of Unrra in China, and as everyone knows, it fell to pieces in corrup­tion.

 

Enough has been said to prove that every real key‑position in the process of the Bolshevik destruction of China has been Jewish. Lastly we remind our readers that Chiang Kai‑Shek himself is a Freemason, having reached the 33rd degree in the Scottish Rite!

 

ARNOLD LEESE.              

 

NOTE.—In the above article, no mention was made of Eugene Chen, Borodin's Colleague and Cantonese Foreign Minister in 1925. Some people think that Chen was Cohen, but there is in­sufficient evidence as to that. He was born in Trinidad, British West Indies, where he was called E. Bernard Acham. He qualified as a solicitor in England, and it can only be guessed why he became the revolutionary enemy of Britain in China.

 

Published by Arnold Leese, 20, Pewley Hill, Guildford, Surrey.

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[CrackSmokeRepublican]

A strategic retreat is not a sign of cowardice. It is a standard tactic of warring armies. Chiang Kai Shek and the KMT fought bravely against a ruthless and devious opponent. War is not nice. Chiang was prevented from victory by the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of the Jews of the Truman Administration and the Jews of the Soviet Union who were aiding MaoTse-tung in every way. Once on Taiwan, necessity and survival played the key roles in Chiang's actions.

Cry and complain about it if you want to, but nothing you can say will detract from the brave soldiers who fought for the Republic of China and secured an outpost against the devils on the Mainland.

The Republic of China on Taiwan is the only legitimate government of the Chinese People.

"Anti-Semites have no say about Taiwan's destiny!"

Ooo, that sounds so brave and heroic! But considering the fact that the Opium Monopoly was a Jewish monopoly practiced under British passport; considering the fact that Communism is a Jewish swindle practiced under Russian passport; considering the fact that the main supplier of Red Chinese weapons and nuclear technology is directly supplied by Israel; and considering the fact that the main cheerleaders here in the USA for Red China attacking and destroying Taiwan all happen to be Jews and their Leftist allies -- I guess folks like me should just remain quiet and let your friends, the Jews, treat you to their brand of friendship.

The Jewish Sassoon family to this day have big buildings in Hong Kong that they built with Chinese suffering, blood and silver from their Opium Monopoly. The Opium Wars were promoted by the Jewish bankers in London to protect the opium business of their fellow Jews in China. Chinese Commmunism was founded by two Jews from the Soviet Union with Mao Tse-tung as their puppet.

As far as having a say in Taiwan's destiny. I am not about to let a free and honorable people like those on Taiwan be destroyed by a bunch of lying, deceiving devils, if there is anything that I can do to prevent it. I can't do much. But Truth is always more powerful than Lies. And the Commies are liars and so are the Jews.

So, there you have it ... I have already had a say in Taiwan's Destiny and I am not even an anti-Semite.

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[CrackSmokeRepublican]

THE FREEMASONS IN CHINA
The Illustrated London News, 1865.
Published in The Square Magazine Vol 27, June 2001



In 1865, the foundation stone of a new Masonic Hall was laid in Shanghai, and as was normal for those times, the event was described in The Illustrated London News:

 THE ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Masonic temple at Shanghai took place on the 3rd of July -the Worthy Brother Robert Freke Gould, PM Nos. 178,580 and 743, PProvSGW Andalusia, officiating with the silver trowel.

The lodges having mustered at the old Masonic Hall in the Canton Road, were marshalled in procession by the RW Bro Donaldson, the procession being headed by the consular body, the municipal council, the Customhouse officials, the Shanghai Rangers and rifle volunteers and the police band. The lodges so represented in the procession were the Ancient Landmark, Cosmopolitan, Tuscan, Northern Lodge of China, and the Royal Sussex. The band of the 67th Regiment came next. Then followed the stewards and others with the corn, wine, oil, book of constitutions, volume of the sacred law, mallet, Corinthian, Doric and Ionic lights, and other symbols of their architectural religion.

 When the procession reached the site shown in our illustration (from a photograph by Mr W. Saunders) a prayer was offered and a parchment scroll, bearing record of the date of this ceremony, a phial containing the current coins of England, India, China and Japan, the latest issues of the Anglo-Chinese newspapers, and lodge by-laws were placed between the upper and lower stones; the cement spread by Brother Gould. The PGM then called for three hearty cheers, which were given with enthusiasm while the band played a lively air. Two verses of the looth Psalm were sung, after which brief addresses were read by the Grand Master and Chaplain.

During the ceremony the balconies of Messrs. Pustan and Co's hong (sic) were crowded with ladies, who had the opportunity of witnessing one of the most interesting and important Masonic rites.

The building, as designed by architect Brother Clark, will consist of two parts, of which the front portion, facing the bund (sic), will contain three stories; while the back which will comprise a public hall on the lower floor and the Masonic temple above, will be two stories in height. The public hall will be available for banquets, lectures, concerts and other public occasions, furnished with two entrances: one public, the other Masonic. The hall will be 25ft in height, the temple more so. There will also be servants' offices, library, reading rooms and refreshment room, Masters' conclave and Royal Arch Chapter. The style will be Italian

1850 - 1950: Colonial and Freemason Concerns
Dian H. Murray, in collaboration with Qin Biaoqi
The Origins of the Tiandihui: The Chinese Triads in Legend and History
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 1994. pp. 90-92
CHINESE FREEMASONRY
The nineteenth-century environment of the European colonial officials was one in which secret societies dominated the intellectual landscape. Foremost among these was the order of Freemason, which had commanded the membership of such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Wolfgang Mozart, and Voltaire. Many of the civil servants were members themselves, and the rest were certainly aware of the Freemasons' existence.
The Masons constituted one of the oldest and largest fraternal organizations in the world. Many of its ideals and rituals stemmed from the period of cathedral building between the tenth and sixteenth centuries, a time when the stoneworkers or masons formed guilds in various European cities and towns. As one such group, the "free masons" traveled from community to community and organized themselves into lodges. With the decline of cathedral building, these lodges became purely social societies, joined by men who had never even thought of working with their hands. Contemporary Masons trace their origins to the formation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717. From there, the movement spread quickly to the Continent, where between 1770 and 1832 it took on political and military overtones.
The Western discovery of secret societies in China at a time of widespread suspicion of this darker side of Masonry caused Freemasons to seize on the find to prove that theirs was an honorable order that had originated in antiquity. As a result, when European civil servants encountered the Tiandihui and its offshoots in Asia, they immediately focused on the similarities between the secret societies of the East and West. Freemason intellectuals created the myth that the Chinese and Masonic orders were descendants of a common mystic ancestor. Masonic historians propounded the idea that their order had originated in the ancient Near East and spread into both the Orient and the Occident, and Freemason intellectuals adopted the "comparative method" to demonstrate that their mandate dated back thousands of years. At the same time, no Freemason wished to accept responsibility for or be identified with the illegal activities of the Chinese societies. Thus polemical discussions on the relationship between the contemporary societies in China and the West were carried on in Masonic journals.
Even though the common origin theory has long since been disavowed, and the commonalities between the Tiandihui and Freemasonry attributed to mere circumstance, there are, at first glance, striking similarities. Both were fraternal orders that relied on brotherhood as a social leveler. Both were divided into largely autonomous subunits, known in the West as chapters or lodges, that were loosely linked with one another through common initiation ceremonies. And perhaps most tellingly, both used the symbolism of the triangle. By the mid-nineteenth century, as we shall see, "Triad" had come into widespread usage among Westerners as a generic term for the Tiandihui and its offshoots. For the Masons, the triangle, along with the circle, was a key symbol. Originally venerated for the same reason the ancient Pythagoreans venerated It—as the simplest means of enclosing a surface with straight lines—it later, in revolutionary Masonry, became imbued with the additional symbolism of Pythagorean occultism. Revolutionary groups held that the three elements of nature—fire, water, and earth—had to be energized by an "all animating principle" or "point of sunrise" represented as a dot in the center of an equilateral triangle. Any letter, symbol, or maxim that a particular group wished to venerate was given this central place of authority within the triangular seal.
There were still other points of similarity. Both societies made use of magical numbers, especially "three," both emerged in the late eighteenth century, and both became vehicles for political movements. just as Masonry was deliberately used by European revolutionaries of the early nineteenth century "as a recruiting ground for their first conspiratorial experiments in political organization,' so the Tiandihui was used by Chinese revolutionaries of the early twentieth century as one of their main organizational tools. Finally, the history of both has been difficult to trace, and at times the scholarship about them has been more concerned with what people thought they were about than with what they were actually about.
Fascinated by the surface similarities, the early scholars in their search for a common origin overlooked the equally obvious difference, namely, the ideological gulf that separated Freemasonry from the Tiandihui. The Tiandihui did not have any spiritual or intellectual underpinnings or share the Masons' concern with moral order. If joining the Tiandihui meant being "reborn" into new families or communities, this was never held up as a means of access to the higher truths of nature or as a way to attain a new moral perfection freed from all established religion and political authority.
The pioneer in the study of Chinese secret societies was Dr. William Milne, principal of the Anglo-Chinese College (in Malacca), who, in 1821, wrote the first systematic account of the "Three Unities Society" (Sanhehui). In this brief work, still unfinished at his death in Azz, he described what he knew of the society's name, object, organization, initiation rituals, secret signs, and seal. It was he, apparently, who coined the popular name "Triad."
It was also Milne who started scholars on the search for a Freemason connection. He pointed out that, like the Masons, the Chinese secret societies were characterized by pretensions to antiquity, pursued mutual assistance as their professed object, held ceremonies of initiation and oath taking, and were under tripartite governance; according to him, the three "elder brothers" in the Sanhehui were the counterparts of the apprentices, fellow-craftsmen, and masters of the Freemasons.*
Milne freely admitted that he had not been able to obtain information on the Sanhehui's laws, discipline, and internal management, but he was sure that so far as its object was concerned, it had "degenerated from mere mutual assistance, to theft, robbery, the overthrow of regular government, and an aim at political power," so that society members now "engage[d] to defend each other against attacks from police officers, to hide each other's crimes; [and] to assist detected members to make their escape from the hands of Justice."
Excerpted from The Origins of the Tiandihui: The Chinese Triads in Legend and History, Dian H. Murray, in collaboration with Qin Biaoqi. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 1994. pp. 90-92
* Milne, Dr. William. "Some Account of a Secret Association in China, entitled the Triad Society," Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. I, part 2 (1826) : 240-50.

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Dr. Sun Yat-sen
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November 12, 1866 - March 12, 1925
Chinese revolutionary and political leader, Sun Deming, often referred to as Guofu or "Father of the Nation", played a prominent role in the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 under the pseudonym Sun Zhongshan.
The history of that overthrow, and the myth-making accompanying it, has lead to some confusion as to Sun's relationship with Freemasonry. While never a member of regular Craft Freemasonry, Sun appears to have been active in at least one society commonly referred to as Chinese Freemasonry.
Through his writings Sun attempted to depict the earlier Tiandihui Society as anti-Manchu, a perspective without historical merit but with great political value in mobilizing support for his revolution.

Sun is believed to have joined the Zhigongtang (Chee Kung Tong) in Honolulu. It is also said that he "was a Triad official of long standing and is reported to have been a 426 "Fighter" official of the "Kwok On Wui, as it was called in Cantonese, in Honolulu and Chicago; this society came under the general supervision of the Cantonese-named Chi Kung Tong, a mainly overseas section of the Triad Hung Mun." The terms Tong and Triad, generally used in reference to criminal gangs, also incorporates a grouping of mutual aid societies under the name Tiandihui or Hangmen Society.
Non-freemason
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Source: Teng Ssu-yu "Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Chinese secret Societies." In Robert Sakai, Studies on Asia. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1963, pp. 81-99 ; W. P. Morgan, Triad societies in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Government Press, 1960, p. 25. Image : cover. Cosmorama Illustré, August 1971

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