List Of Chinese Criminal Organizations
Criminal gangs are found throughout Mainland China but are most active in Chongqing, Shanghai, Macau, Tianjin, Shenyang, and Guangzhou as well as in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. The number of people involved in organized crime on the mainland has risen from around 100,000 in 1986 to around 1.5 million in the year 2000. 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'' looks at the role of Hong Kong Triads in legal, illegal and international markets. Peng Wang's ''The Chinese Mafia'' examines the rise of mainland Chinese organized crime and the political-criminal nexus (collusion between gangs and corrupt police officers) in reform and opening era of China. Triad societies The following is a list of Chinese triad societies: * 14K Group 十四K ...
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Chongqing
Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a municipality in Southwest China. The official abbreviation of the city, "" (), was approved by the State Council on 18 April 1997. This abbreviation is derived from the old name of a part of the Jialing River that runs through Chongqing and feeds into the Yangtze River. Administratively, it is one of the four municipalities under the direct administration of the central government of the People's Republic of China (the other three are Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin), and the only such municipality located deep inland. The municipality of Chongqing, roughly the size of Austria, includes the city of Chongqing as well as various discontiguous cities. Due to a classification technicality, Chongqing municipality can claim to be the largest city proper in the worldthough it does not have the world's largest urban area. Chongqing is the only city ...
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14K Hau
14K may refer to: * 14K Triad, a Chinese criminal organization * Gnome-Rhône 14K, an aircraft engine of the 1920s and 1930s * 14K, another term for a Fourteener mountain peak (above 14,000 feet) of the Rocky Mountains in western North America. * 14K (Death Race) The ''Death Race'' series is a car combat franchise encompassing a series of films and other media centered on a reality show set in a prison, where inmates race against each other in order to win their freedom. Films ''Death Race 2000'' (1975) ..., a fictional character in the ''Death Race'' film series. See also * Carat (purity) {{Letter-NumberCombDisambig ...
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14K Yee Shing Tong
14K may refer to: * 14K Triad, a Chinese criminal organization * Gnome-Rhône 14K, an aircraft engine of the 1920s and 1930s * 14K, another term for a Fourteener mountain peak (above 14,000 feet) of the Rocky Mountains in western North America. * 14K (Death Race), a fictional character in the ''Death Race'' film series. See also *Carat (purity) The fineness of a precious metal object (coin, bar, jewelry, etc.) represents the weight of ''fine metal'' therein, in proportion to the total weight which includes alloying base metals and any impurities. Alloy metals are added to increase hard ...

14K Yee
14K may refer to: * 14K Triad, a Chinese criminal organization * Gnome-Rhône 14K, an aircraft engine of the 1920s and 1930s * 14K, another term for a Fourteener mountain peak (above 14,000 feet) of the Rocky Mountains in western North America. * 14K (Death Race), a fictional character in the ''Death Race'' film series. See also *Carat (purity) The fineness of a precious metal object (coin, bar, jewelry, etc.) represents the weight of ''fine metal'' therein, in proportion to the total weight which includes alloying base metals and any impurities. Alloy metals are added to increase hard ...

14K Yan
14K may refer to: * 14K Triad, a Chinese criminal organization * Gnome-Rhône 14K, an aircraft engine of the 1920s and 1930s * 14K, another term for a Fourteener mountain peak (above 14,000 feet) of the Rocky Mountains in western North America. * 14K (Death Race) The ''Death Race'' series is a car combat franchise encompassing a series of films and other media centered on a reality show set in a prison, where inmates race against each other in order to win their freedom. Films ''Death Race 2000'' (1975) ..., a fictional character in the ''Death Race'' film series. See also * Carat (purity) {{Letter-NumberCombDisambig ...
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14K Tak
14K may refer to: * 14K Triad, a Chinese criminal organization * Gnome-Rhône 14K, an aircraft engine of the 1920s and 1930s * 14K, another term for a Fourteener mountain peak (above 14,000 feet) of the Rocky Mountains in western North America. * 14K (Death Race) The ''Death Race'' series is a car combat franchise encompassing a series of films and other media centered on a reality show set in a prison, where inmates race against each other in order to win their freedom. Films ''Death Race 2000'' (1975) ..., a fictional character in the ''Death Race'' film series. See also * Carat (purity) {{Letter-NumberCombDisambig ...
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14K Tai Huen Chai
14K may refer to: * 14K Triad, a Chinese criminal organization * Gnome-Rhône 14K, an aircraft engine of the 1920s and 1930s * 14K, another term for a Fourteener mountain peak (above 14,000 feet) of the Rocky Mountains in western North America. * 14K (Death Race) The ''Death Race'' series is a car combat franchise encompassing a series of films and other media centered on a reality show set in a prison, where inmates race against each other in order to win their freedom. Films ''Death Race 2000'' (1975) ..., a fictional character in the ''Death Race'' film series. See also * Carat (purity) {{Letter-NumberCombDisambig ...
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14K Shun
14K may refer to: * 14K Triad, a Chinese criminal organization * Gnome-Rhône 14K, an aircraft engine of the 1920s and 1930s * 14K, another term for a Fourteener mountain peak (above 14,000 feet) of the Rocky Mountains in western North America. * 14K (Death Race) The ''Death Race'' series is a car combat franchise encompassing a series of films and other media centered on a reality show set in a prison, where inmates race against each other in order to win their freedom. Films ''Death Race 2000'' (1975) ..., a fictional character in the ''Death Race'' film series. See also * Carat (purity) {{Letter-NumberCombDisambig ...
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14K Sat
14K may refer to: * 14K Triad, a Chinese criminal organization * Gnome-Rhône 14K, an aircraft engine of the 1920s and 1930s * 14K, another term for a Fourteener mountain peak (above 14,000 feet) of the Rocky Mountains in western North America. * 14K (Death Race) The ''Death Race'' series is a car combat franchise encompassing a series of films and other media centered on a reality show set in a prison, where inmates race against each other in order to win their freedom. Films ''Death Race 2000'' (1975) ..., a fictional character in the ''Death Race'' film series. See also * Carat (purity) {{Letter-NumberCombDisambig ...
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14K Sai Yee Tong
14K may refer to: * 14K Triad, a Chinese criminal organization * Gnome-Rhône 14K, an aircraft engine of the 1920s and 1930s * 14K, another term for a Fourteener mountain peak (above 14,000 feet) of the Rocky Mountains in western North America. * 14K (Death Race) The ''Death Race'' series is a car combat franchise encompassing a series of films and other media centered on a reality show set in a prison, where inmates race against each other in order to win their freedom. Films ''Death Race 2000'' (1975) ..., a fictional character in the ''Death Race'' film series. See also * Carat (purity) {{Letter-NumberCombDisambig ...
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14K Sai Shing Tong
14K may refer to: * 14K Triad, a Chinese criminal organization * Gnome-Rhône 14K, an aircraft engine of the 1920s and 1930s * 14K, another term for a Fourteener mountain peak (above 14,000 feet) of the Rocky Mountains in western North America. * 14K (Death Race) The ''Death Race'' series is a car combat franchise encompassing a series of films and other media centered on a reality show set in a prison, where inmates race against each other in order to win their freedom. Films ''Death Race 2000'' (1975) ..., a fictional character in the ''Death Race'' film series. See also * Carat (purity) {{Letter-NumberCombDisambig ...
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14K Ngai
14K may refer to: * 14K Triad, a Chinese criminal organization * Gnome-Rhône 14K, an aircraft engine of the 1920s and 1930s * 14K, another term for a Fourteener mountain peak (above 14,000 feet) of the Rocky Mountains in western North America. * 14K (Death Race), a fictional character in the ''Death Race'' film series. See also *Carat (purity) The fineness of a precious metal object (coin, bar, jewelry, etc.) represents the weight of ''fine metal'' therein, in proportion to the total weight which includes alloying base metals and any impurities. Alloy metals are added to increase hard ...