Wang Di. Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949

Stanford University Press, 2018. — 277 p.This is the first book-length treatment of the Paoge - a violent secret society located in a rural village near Chengdu, China. The book uses a filicide within the society as a starting point to examine the environment, history, culture, and organization of the Paoge and the structures of local power in 1940s rural Sichuan.