The Four Seas Gang, or FSG (四海幫, or ''Si Hai Bang'') is a
triad society based in
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. It includes mainland Chinese and their descendants who fled to Taiwan with the
KMT
The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...
. The Four Seas Gang has an estimated membership 10,000 in Taiwan. Its members have extended their influence to cities in the southern region of
California
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. Its American constituents are a branch off of the original
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
society. There are also smaller factions that are merely
street gangs, warring with other gangs of low notoriety. Four Seas Gang is active in alien smuggling in Southern California. Their territories are mainly Los Angeles and Santa Ana California. They use the color grey for their individual clothing for the gang.
Historical leadership
Boss (official and acting)
*1954-1962 — "Big Feng"
Feng Chu-yu
*1971-1986 — "Wei-Min"
Liu Wei-min
*1986?-1994? — "King Tsai"
Tsai Kuan-lun
*1990?-1994? — "Big Bao"
Chen Yung-ho
*1994?-1997 — "King Chao"
Chao Ching-hua
**Acting 1997-2000 — "Kuang-Nan"
Yang Kuang-nan
*2000-2008 — "Old Chia"
Chia Jun-nien Chia may refer to:
Plants
* ''Salvia hispanica'', flowering plant in the sage family
** Chia seed, edible seeds of ''Salvia hispanica''
* ''Salvia columbariae'', an annual plant that is commonly called chia, chia sage, golden chia or desert chia ...
*2008-2010 — "Kid Chang"
Chang Chien-ying
Chien-Ying Chang (25 May 1913, in Wuxi – January 2004) was a Chinese-born painter who settled in Britain in 1946.
Early life
Chien-Ying Chang was the daughter of a customs official and attended Wuxi secondary school, after which she studied A ...
*2010-2012 — "Young Kay"
Yang Yu-pin
Yang may refer to:
* Yang, in yin and yang, one half of the two symbolic polarities in Chinese philosophy
* Korean yang, former unit of currency of Korea from 1892 to 1902
* YANG, a data modeling language for the NETCONF network configuration p ...
*2012-2021 — "De-Yun"
Yang Te-yun
Yang may refer to:
* Yang, in yin and yang, one half of the two symbolic polarities in Chinese philosophy
* Korean yang, former unit of currency of Korea from 1892 to 1902
* YANG, a data modeling language for the NETCONF network configuration p ...
*2021-present — "Chun-Wei"
Chang tsun-wei
Chang may refer to:
People Surname
* Chang (surname), the romanization of several separate Chinese surnames
* Chang or Jang (Korean name), romanizations of the Korean surname
Given name
* Chang Bunker () (1811–1874), one of the original ...
Organization
Since the 1950s development, Four Seas Gang organization has 86 branches, members and partner relations up to 50,000 people.
External links
Organized Crime in CaliforniaPolice in Shanghai arrest Taiwanese criminal gang head ''Taipei Times'' Staff Writer (Nov. 9, 2000)
Chinese gangs
Gangs in California
Gangs in Asia
Organized crime groups in Taiwan
Street gangs
Triad groups
Asian-American gangs
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