![]() ![]() The latter, as the author points out, are not to be confused with the much better-organised, island-wide operating gangs such as “Bamboo United”, “Four Seas” or “Celestial Alliance”. The first part outlines the relevance of “Black Gold” for Taiwanese society and politics, provides a typology of Taiwan’s crime groups, defines important terms and describes the evolution of major groups and their leaders as well as the geographical distribution of loosely knit local crime groups. Chin conducted interviews with 117 informants, among which government officials, police officers, elected deputies from all levels of administration and 32 figures in organised crime, some major.ĢThe book is divided into three parts, each of which consists of three chapters. “Heijin” not only summarises existing primary and secondary sources in an English-language publication, but also contributes many new and important insights. ![]() This has changed with the publication of Ko-lin Chin’s book. Despite its societal relevance and the ample information available on the subject, the topic was not accorded much attention outside Taiwan. 1 “Black Gold” (heijin), the iron triangle of organised crime, business and politics is a major topic in the Taiwanese media and subject of many valuable studies, nearly all of them in Chinese. ![]()
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