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Since the new century, there are two academic books focusing on Chinese organized crime. Based on rich empirical work, these books offer how Chinese criminal organizations survive in the changing socio-economic and political environment. Y. K. Chu's Triads as Business [2] looks at the role of Hong Kong Triads in legal, illegal and international ...
The Flying Dragons (traditional Chinese: 飛龍幫; simplified Chinese: 飞龙帮; Jyutping: Fei1lung4bong1), also known as FDS, was a Chinese American street gang that was prominent in New York City's Chinatown from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
Revenge of the Green Dragons is a 2014 crime drama film directed by Andrew Lau and Andrew Loo, written by Michael Di Jiacomo and Andrew Loo, with Martin Scorsese as an executive producer. The film stars Justin Chon , Kevin Wu , Harry Shum Jr. , Eugenia Yuan , Geoff Pierson and Ray Liotta .
The movie received mixed reviews from critics and audience. It currently has a ranking of 49% on Rotten Tomatoes with a critic consensus that reads "This uninspiring cop thriller doesn't measure up to Chow Yun-Fat's Hong Kong work." [3] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale. [4]
The Black Dragons (Chinese: 黑龍; Jyutping: Haak 1 Lung 4) was a Chinese-American criminal organization and street gang that was formed in 1980 by Chinese immigrants in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California. It was started by a group of young men who banded together to protect themselves from other Asian and Latino gangs.
Another survey said that, like smaller gangs like the Green Dragons, Taiwan Brotherhood and Golden Star appear to have a maximum of 20 core members and 50 peripheral members. Elizabeth Glazer, the chief of the organized crime unit in the United States Attorney's office for the Southern District, described the White Tigers as a relatively ...
The Golden Dragon Massacre led to the establishment of the SFPD's Chinatown (later Asian) Gang Task Force, [48] [79] credited with ending gang-related violence in Chinatown by 1983. [80] The Task Force's first credited arrest was for Michael Louie, the reputed 21-year-old leader of the Wah Ching who was one of the targets in the Golden Dragon ...
Johnny Eng (born ca. 1958) (Chinese: 伍少衡; Jyutping: ng5 siu3 hang4), also known as Onionhead (Chinese: 蔥頭; Jyutping: cung1 tau4) or Machinegun Johnny, [1] is a Hong Kong-born American gang leader and drug trafficker. Eng was the former head (dai-lo) of the Flying Dragons gang in New York City.