Barend J. ter Haar, Doctorate (1990) in Sinology, University of Leiden. Professor of the Social and Economic History of China at the University of Heidelberg. Publications include The White Lotus Teachings in Chinese Religious History (Brill, 1992).
"…an important academic breakthrough in the specialty regarding the
Chinese Trials… this book is a watershed in the research field on
Chinese secret societies in general and the Triads in particular,
because it lays the foundation for scholars to use a sociological
perspective to explore a topic which has previously been
investigated solely by East Asian historians. Ter Haar, by giving
socialists an excellent example of interdisciplinary research,
deserves to get an encore from both East Asian historians and
sociologists." – Hua-Lun Huang, in: Crime, Law & Social Change,
2004
"This massive, exhaustive, one-of-a-kind scholarly masterpiece is
truly a tour de force, a work so impressive in its scope and
attention to fine detail as to be indispensable to libraries and
scholars in the field of sinology." – Michael Saso, in: China
Review International, 2004
"Barend J. ter Haar’s latest book is a breathtaking work of
scholarship, charting new directions in the study of Chinese secret
societies by grounding them in a sophisticated understanding of
local popular and religious culture. If it is hardly the last word
on this complex topic, no future work on secret societies,
sectarian religion, or popular movements can afford to ignore this
volume." – David Ownby, in: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies,
2000
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