I have lived in Taipei since 1996. Factually, it's correct, but the implication is that Taiwan is crime-ridden and the streets are not safe. That is not true. Organized crime hardly touches the lives of anyone. Virtually no one has even seen a gun outside of the military. It is absolutely the safest place I have ever been.
@@scottsommers2068 but thats basically every organized crime documentary if you think about it. Thats why its called the underworld. If you watch documentaries about the italian mob in chicago and NY it will make those places look like hell holes. But the reality is those places were very safe at the time.
@@scottsommers2068 Yesterday, gangsters shot up a pawnshop right next to where I work in broad daylight, and that is not the first time I've seen people popping off shots.
By the way, the United Bamboo Gang was established on the road called Julin Road竹林路 in my hometown Yonghe永和. Moreover, their formation was basically emerged with other smaller gangs, that is the reason why their Chinese name is 竹聯幫( Ju Lian Bang)
@@jeremyooi1996 if I remembered correctly, the brawls in parliament occurred on either weekly or daily, to the point that the chances of a legislative deadlock were guaranteed.
27:06 Chen cooperated with a local gangster in Tainan to help him stage his own assassination attempt on March 19, 2004. He apparently created his wound the day before at his house in Tainan on March 18. This organized crime figure was a key component in Chen staging the entire incident.
Yes, the curved tuna belly graze. But vp got it in the knee. China will scream but not meet ma ying jeou. I dont think they want anything to do with taiwan leaving it exposed by their own invitation to Japan. Rim of fire family. I wonder what happened to Uncle 7s descendants. He and chan wing yeung and the rest of chinatown and taiwan were so committed to protecting their heroin trade that they smeared and murdered dad. Beijing even saw fit to invite ng siu pui's son to beijing. I think chicoms and white know exactly who the chinatown aristocrat descendants are. It was really genius to kill so many people at least the scientist, Peter wong and Peter eng wong murders are directly tied to Uncle 7 which means chinatown is run by a bunch of serial killers. White wolf smearing chicoms by claiming he works for them now since taiwan can't bear being caught like vampires in the sun. Thats endearing. Just like taiwan spying for japan in hk in the years before Dec 8, 1941. Just like triad left alone to torture the fepows. Eddie huang knew about those Tupac lyrics re harlins but he played SMART per taiwan values and kept his mouth shut when Fresh Off the Boat spent 6 years showing how conniving and selfish his family were. This is the same Disney that showed gong li as taiwan aiding Jason Scott Lee as Japan aka morons aka taotei against daughter of China MULAN. Ha. Real Harvard material. Harvard exists thanks to the opium trade against China which wedged the door open for baby raping incest cannibals. Paul Weller calls them a kind race which rewarded him with a Japanese son in law and grandchild. Judt like Mark Wiens expecting he can stay on the right side of power by promoting Taiwan just like nocs fung Brothers and action kid. Nobody goes to taiwan for no reason. There is a side. And hidden blade shows chicoms keep score.
@@junchen9954 No, not exactly. That's what racist pan green people like to claim, but the incident was in fact staged. Here's the evidence that it was staged. The windshield hole was hit from the inside out. Therefore, it was a staged incident and Dr. Henry Lee and the entire Taiwan government and those experts they hired from the US were lying about it. ua-cam.com/video/nzjwdIHPwB8/v-deo.html Secondly, the election was rigged the following day on March 20, 2004. Around 800,000 to 900,000 ballots. The 319 incident had an impact of around 600,000 ballots. The DPP has been rigging elections in Taiwan since the year 2000 at least and like to claim that mainlanders can't accept the results, but it's actually just fraud because the DPP doesn't have enough support from the general public. They have to cheat systematically to win national elections. ua-cam.com/video/pFwk-1pIaRg/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/oL5yGgJu1z8/v-deo.html
Taiwan is known by Malaysian media as the "Island of Gangs," where the local mafia is notorious for its danger. Additionally, Taiwan is also recognized as a major transit point for illegal drugs in Asia. Although Taiwan's public safety is relatively good, it is not recommended to visit overly complicated areas when traveling to Taiwan.
@@JamieLannyster You speaking in this manner only demonstrates your ignorance. I have worked in the area and have some knowledge about the local gangs. Taiwanese gangs are very brutal, they kill people and bury them in the mountains. They have committed multiple massacres in the Philippines and the United States.
the most comical to me is when foreigners call Taiwan a nation - but when it comes to things like drug and human trafficking in the west those groups are called "Chinese". It's hilarious. Same with Hong Kong gangs.
In Taiwan's history, there have been over 200 gangs, with the Bamboo Union being the largest and having infiltrated various industries nationwide. Even the police dare not offend them, and the weapons used by the Bamboo Union are more advanced than those of the police. The weapons in each of their branches are equivalent to a military company. The Bamboo Union has dozens of large branches and hundreds of sub-branches
Bamboo Union has extended even into my hometown Las Vegas, NV. There was an enforcer for this gang that stabbed and murdered a man in a karaoke bar here, my dad met him in prison. His case can be seen online by typing Bamboo Union enforcer Las Vegas in google. Crazy story, and wild to see the influence these gangs have even in the States
We’re the Jiatou Native Taiwanese in the sense of them being Chinese born in Taiwan or were they Aboriginal Taiwanese Austronesians? Are there any Aboriginal Taiwanese based gangs or organized crime syndicates as well or are they all usually Chinese based? Great video!
Jiatou is the Taiwanese descended from Chinese immigrants and settlers before the 1940s. The indigenous Taiwanese are a small percentage of Taiwan, so im not sure if there is any fully indigenous gangs. But the purpose of this video was to show that basically all gangs and organized crime groups in Taiwan are descended from China. New or old.
You are right, there’s no aboriginal Taiwanese gangs but there are a lot of aboriginal Taiwanese in the 3 main gangs in this video. But most of the gangsters after the 80’s are mostly Taiwan born and Taiwanese speakers （台客）， chew beetle nuts. Although some of the first gen of the bamboo came from China, but 99% of the members are Taiwanese and not from mainland.
90 percent of people in Taiwan descend from Mainland China. It's whether it's before or after WW2 that makes the difference. Aboriginies are not really urbanized in Taiwan - and are a very small population.
Can you share your source that says that sitting members are immune from imprisonment? I am US Army in Taiwan currently trying to wrap my head around this place.
The connection between organized crimes and those currently running the government run much deeper. The current president Tsai has deep crime family background as well
But Taiwan is considered one of the most safest countries in the world. I'm confused by this. Is it dangerous on the street or at night there? Or only certain areas?
@@lexbraxman9270 Try not to go to complicated places or get involved with gangs, and avoid causing trouble in their territory. Generally speaking, it is very safe.
@@lexbraxman9270normally, it’s the gang members that don’t want to have anything to do with you haha so unless you go out of your way to provoke them, you gonna be safe
Had a friendly 8+9 brother explain some local history of groups once when we were drinking, but nothing as in depth as this video. really well researched
Interesting vid. I might have missed it, but did you cite your sources? I'm not doubting the information is factual; I would just be interested in further reading. Kindly provide a bibliography. I'm guessing the books are within your reaching distance. Many thanks.
Taiwan is fascinating tbh, especially the "Tiandihui" situation. As the Qing stepped foot into China thru their conquest by Nurhaci, the Mings and whatever remnant that survived all fled to Taiwan and set up a new dynasty that's aligned to the Ming and held out for at least a decade before properly being annexed by the Qings. Those that survived the 2nd purge yet again went underground and started their own guerilla campaign in Taiwan against the Qings and even went as far as to send members into the coastal cities of China like Guangdong, Suzhou, Shanghai etc etc to start their rebellion campaigns.
In my opinions , traditional Taiwanese gang adapts Japanese ways of handling businesses... fight the strong ones , and protect the weak. Collect protection money means they also lend out a hand whenever they need to . And their strict codes of disciplinary in their gang somewhat similar to Japanese gang.
Great video! Waiting for more TW gang series. Some suggestions: 1. Try not to use AI in the video. You can find many info of many bamboo gang member on wiki or Taiwan news or tv shows (if you understand Mandarin). 2. Bamboo is really a pure TW gang, somehow this video made it seem like it’s a gang from China. But it really isn’t. My father is the classmate and a very good friend of the main bamboo leader (Chen Chi-li), my father is also an immigrant from China, but the gang is really started with most Taiwanese. And yes they did fight local gangs.
@@Puffy_Puffbamboo union was born out of the Chinese that immigrated to Taiwan after losing the civil war. So yes, it's Taiwanese in the sense that they're Chinese who rose to power in Taiwan, but they excluded the aboriginal Taiwanese people. It's like how things that purely "American" might refer to the United States, but they're not "Native American" who are the "pure Americans".
Sir, can you please do a video on the '上海佬菠蘿事件' (Shanghainese Pineapple Incident)? 🤔 The reason why I ask you, is that it was a BIG political incident that happened in Hong Kong during the 1960s; and was covered well in the HK news media over the years. You can say that it has similar political ties with post-WWII (since you have covered some important members political figures of the KMT on this video), and as well as all the Hong Kong street riots; that happened in recent years/decades. ...Have you ever heard of that kinda '蘇州屎' before? 😲
The local kids picked on Later Immigrant kids because of the persecution regular Taiwanese suffered at the hands of the KMT regime. The local gangs disliked Late Immigrant gangs because gangs are naturally territorial, and these new Late Immigrant gangs are basically pushing local gangs out of their established territories by leveraging their connections with the KMT regime. Of course, when Black Gold really started, the KMT was reliant on local gangs down in southern and rural areas to manipulate the election.
Don't fall for the kmt victim claim. They do it all over usa culture. It's their schitck. Boo hoo my white suburban school mocked My custom made Chinese lunch. Who ever heard of that by chinayown kids who didnt have white classmates or nobody toisanese. My mother didn't hand wrap dumplings for my lunch. She made whatever the other kids were having. Sandwiches. Some of those white kids couldn't afford lunchboxes and were renters using the laundromat and actually made no more money than chinatown ppl believe it or not. They were very out of pocket sending kids to catholic school which got no govt funding and had no cafeteria, nothing special. They didn't want their kids to be criminals and if u talk 2 old Irish ladies they still say that all of their kids turned out non criminals in careers like crossing guards but also expat execs.
@@forgottenstreets Just a small correction: The photo of Lin Dingli in this video was actually of ROCAF Colonel general Chen Ce, who committed suicide in 1949.
Yeah how ironic the west boosted him up - when he was a volunteer for the Japanese Imperial Army to fight the west. Politics is dirtier than gangsterism.
Note that the so called "settlers" before the 1940s consist primarily of people from the southern part of what's called Fujian Province today, they spoke a totally different language than the immigrants that came in the 40s and 50s. It's not quite fair to roughly refer to them all as the same groups of people who just came earlier because they were completely different ethnic groups in the first place. There are Cantonese, Hokkien, Shanghainese, Sichuanese and many other languages spoken in China, they pretty much couldn't communicate with each other before Mandarin was forced on them.
Just saw the Taiwan news today that 和勝和 from Hong Kong expanded to Taiwan and working deeply with 天道盟。since China took over HK, this forced them to expand oversea.
Thank you for making this video and now we know the history of Taiwan’s mafia. But I wish the Taiwan government can stop them and prevent the next generation will be effected by the gangsters. If not and the Formosa will become the gangsters island!
Nowadays gangster in taiwan had lost lots of their violent list n power. some were become businessman, other simply retired.. i been to taiwan dozen times, public safety was better than many part of the world. Security was tight.. I think past 20 years taiwanese gangster gradually shrink, just like japanese yakuza. It still alive n occasionally do evil deeds, but nothing like before
Back when I was DJin' I was Booked to do a couple of Gigs there by a Street Gang out of Tai Chung Taiwan, One of the best times I have ever had, There was a Guy named Penny, He learned English by watching Rap Videos lol😂 Dude talked like 50cent!
great video, I did one on this same topic years back. yes, the KMT and Chang Kai sheck partnered with the green gang as enforcers and quasi black police and militia, he brought all these bad seeds with him to Taiwan when he got his butt kicked by Mao commies, and they populated Taiwan all over the place in 1947 to 1949
Hwy i been working on not showing weakness by getting out of charter and loose face sorry big and Lil brothers and sisters for me. Talking crazy i take responsibility and ask for forgiveness
The influece of communist governments with organize crime is no joke. In Latin America virtually all gangs have a connection with communist political parties. For example, the Comado de Melo in Brazil was formed by communist in prison and it has a close relationship with the PT (current government in power). In Venezuela the government uses "colectivos" which are literally form by prisoners and gangsters who were pardon in exchange of killing and harrasing democracy candidates. The protest that rocked latin America from 2019 to 2022 were a relatiation by Venezuelan government to democracies in the region for opposing it. You had random protest about a 20 cent increase in train fairs in Chile, a country with the GDP per capita of the Czech Republic (Chechia), resulting in billions of dollars of damages and bombs planted by "protestors" who happened to be illegal immigrants from Venezuela with a criminal record.. I think he treat of those gangs in Tiawan due to their links with CCP are very real, as seen in Hong Kong with triats beating up protestors (legitimate ones) a few years ago.
Im so glad Henry liu is remembered here. Its really not right. The aborigine who was only 1 of 3 ppl who would speak 2 me on the study tour said his Yale classmate went by a fake name bcuz his father had a different opinion that displeased kuomintang.
I think taiwan diaspora working w govts is unique and being red carpet honored as if legitimate and just getting carte Blanche and that comes from kmt origin of wanting 2b aristocratic. Thats pretty toxic but every1 bows 2 money. No one minds if u r evil just if u r poor.
Big gangs are also in the west. Look at t r u m p. Countries are like gangs too. The bigger ones pick on weaker countries to exploit them for political convenience and alliance. Gangs are everywhere in the 🌎. This is just another dark side of a very dark humanity.
Maybe one China might not be a bad idea after all... this really has changed my mind about Taiwan... All though it shouldn't considering Shek was their original gangster raiding the coffers and living like a king
I had to laugh at the report he read saying the gangs are not "patriotic" anymore because they support reunification. LOL> Prior to the 1990's if you claimed Taiwan was "independent" you would be called "unpatriotic". My how times have changed. The KMT are Chinese nationalists... They didn't start a new country. I wonder who wrote this.
Youre right man. Sorry if thats how it came off. This was trying to show that Taiwan’s underworld and political world is dangerous. But yes most of the citizens are living safely.
Nope. It's basically ex husband of barbie Hsu pretending he carries a torch for her when it is so unlikely he ever cared or that she had ANY leverage. It is LITERALLY that similar as if designed to represent china's position and taiwans vanity craving the delusion.
He is also a member of the United Bamboo, story goes he had beef with some of the four seas and they stabbed and beat the shit out of him at the under ground gambling den , So he went to Chen Chi Li for advice and Chen Chi Li eventually ordered the revenge hit on the people that were responsible for the beat down on Wang Yu. After that Wang Yu became one of the United Bamboo member and was a dear friend with Chen Chi Li.
i was born and raised in Taiwan and came to the States in 1996, this video is very well made and
it has the details of the gangs, props to you man.
I have lived in Taipei since 1996. Factually, it's correct, but the implication is that Taiwan is crime-ridden and the streets are not safe. That is not true. Organized crime hardly touches the lives of anyone. Virtually no one has even seen a gun outside of the military. It is absolutely the safest place I have ever been.
@@scottsommers2068 it really depends where you go lol 😆
@@sunnyboy8644 Sure, there are dangerous places. They're hard to find. You don't go there by accident.
@@scottsommers2068 but thats basically every organized crime documentary if you think about it. Thats why its called the underworld. If you watch documentaries about the italian mob in chicago and NY it will make those places look like hell holes. But the reality is those places were very safe at the time.
@@scottsommers2068 Yesterday, gangsters shot up a pawnshop right next to where I work in broad daylight, and that is not the first time I've seen people popping off shots.
The amount of research and work you put into your videos is incredible. Thank you for the content.
As a Taiwanese, I've to say this video is very well made and interesting. look forward to your other videos.
By the way, the United Bamboo Gang was established on the road called Julin Road竹林路 in my hometown Yonghe永和. Moreover, their formation was basically emerged with other smaller gangs, that is the reason why their Chinese name is 竹聯幫( Ju Lian Bang)
Ohhh... This explains why you always see Taiwanese politicians brawling in parliament 🤣🤣
when some taiwanese politicians said they’ll fight for your right.. they’re not joking because they’ll do it.. one punch at a time..
They really be playing irl Yakuza- I mean Sleeping Dogs.
@@jeremyooi1996 if I remembered correctly, the brawls in parliament occurred on either weekly or daily, to the point that the chances of a legislative deadlock were guaranteed.
Forgotten Street’s content, pictures and music really hit different. Keep up the good work!
Been waiting for this one for a long time. Forgotten streets stay bringing the heat
You deserve way more views bro. I'm a huge fan of your work.
Are you phillipino?
27:06 Chen cooperated with a local gangster in Tainan to help him stage his own assassination attempt on March 19, 2004. He apparently created his wound the day before at his house in Tainan on March 18. This organized crime figure was a key component in Chen staging the entire incident.
Yes, the curved tuna belly graze. But vp got it in the knee. China will scream but not meet ma ying jeou. I dont think they want anything to do with taiwan leaving it exposed by their own invitation to Japan. Rim of fire family. I wonder what happened to Uncle 7s descendants. He and chan wing yeung and the rest of chinatown and taiwan were so committed to protecting their heroin trade that they smeared and murdered dad. Beijing even saw fit to invite ng siu pui's son to beijing. I think chicoms and white know exactly who the chinatown aristocrat descendants are. It was really genius to kill so many people at least the scientist, Peter wong and Peter eng wong murders are directly tied to Uncle 7 which means chinatown is run by a bunch of serial killers. White wolf smearing chicoms by claiming he works for them now since taiwan can't bear being caught like vampires in the sun. Thats endearing. Just like taiwan spying for japan in hk in the years before Dec 8, 1941. Just like triad left alone to torture the fepows. Eddie huang knew about those Tupac lyrics re harlins but he played SMART per taiwan values and kept his mouth shut when Fresh Off the Boat spent 6 years showing how conniving and selfish his family were. This is the same Disney that showed gong li as taiwan aiding Jason Scott Lee as Japan aka morons aka taotei against daughter of China MULAN. Ha. Real Harvard material. Harvard exists thanks to the opium trade against China which wedged the door open for baby raping incest cannibals. Paul Weller calls them a kind race which rewarded him with a Japanese son in law and grandchild. Judt like Mark Wiens expecting he can stay on the right side of power by promoting Taiwan just like nocs fung Brothers and action kid. Nobody goes to taiwan for no reason. There is a side. And hidden blade shows chicoms keep score.
It was just a claim made by a bunch of 外省 cry babies who couldn't accept the election results.
@@junchen9954 No, not exactly. That's what racist pan green people like to claim, but the incident was in fact staged. Here's the evidence that it was staged. The windshield hole was hit from the inside out. Therefore, it was a staged incident and Dr. Henry Lee and the entire Taiwan government and those experts they hired from the US were lying about it.
ua-cam.com/video/nzjwdIHPwB8/v-deo.html
Secondly, the election was rigged the following day on March 20, 2004. Around 800,000 to 900,000 ballots. The 319 incident had an impact of around 600,000 ballots. The DPP has been rigging elections in Taiwan since the year 2000 at least and like to claim that mainlanders can't accept the results, but it's actually just fraud because the DPP doesn't have enough support from the general public. They have to cheat systematically to win national elections.
ua-cam.com/video/pFwk-1pIaRg/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/oL5yGgJu1z8/v-deo.html
Taiwan is known by Malaysian media as the "Island of Gangs," where the local mafia is notorious for its danger. Additionally, Taiwan is also recognized as a major transit point for illegal drugs in Asia. Although Taiwan's public safety is relatively good, it is not recommended to visit overly complicated areas when traveling to Taiwan.
lol taiwan is by far much much safer than malaysia. the organised crime there doesnt do petty theft like stealing peoples phones, unlike in KL.
@@JamieLannyster You speaking in this manner only demonstrates your ignorance. I have worked in the area and have some knowledge about the local gangs. Taiwanese gangs are very brutal, they kill people and bury them in the mountains. They have committed multiple massacres in the Philippines and the United States.
the most comical to me is when foreigners call Taiwan a nation - but when it comes to things like drug and human trafficking in the west those groups are called "Chinese". It's hilarious. Same with Hong Kong gangs.
Taiwan isnt really a "major transit port" hong kong is
Facinating... I lived in TW in the late 90s. Even to an outsider the infkuence of the era was still felt
I hope you'll cover the bamboo Union, Four Seas Gang and the celestial way gang separately
They all have such romantic names, it's part of what draws me in to these stories.
In Taiwan's history, there have been over 200 gangs, with the Bamboo Union being the largest and having infiltrated various industries nationwide. Even the police dare not offend them, and the weapons used by the Bamboo Union are more advanced than those of the police. The weapons in each of their branches are equivalent to a military company. The Bamboo Union has dozens of large branches and hundreds of sub-branches
I recalled already 180 something gangs in Taiwan 25 years ago.
Bamboo Union has extended even into my hometown Las Vegas, NV. There was an enforcer for this gang that stabbed and murdered a man in a karaoke bar here, my dad met him in prison. His case can be seen online by typing Bamboo Union enforcer Las Vegas in google. Crazy story, and wild to see the influence these gangs have even in the States
thats just bs, unless the gangsters own rocket launchers and IFVs...police in Taiwan own ARs and submachine guns.
Great video!!!!! We have seen a great deal of similarities in organised crime development in the post ww2 landscape. Taiwan is no exception.
I’ve never even heard of any of this except for the bamboo Union. Imagine all the movies that could be made and books to written about all of this.
Just because you haven't seen them...
I really be waiting for your vids. Keep it up!
I’m glad this video is reuploaded
We’re the Jiatou Native Taiwanese in the sense of them being Chinese born in Taiwan or were they Aboriginal Taiwanese Austronesians? Are there any Aboriginal Taiwanese based gangs or organized crime syndicates as well or are they all usually Chinese based? Great video!
Jiatou is the Taiwanese descended from Chinese immigrants and settlers before the 1940s. The indigenous Taiwanese are a small percentage of Taiwan, so im not sure if there is any fully indigenous gangs. But the purpose of this video was to show that basically all gangs and organized crime groups in Taiwan are descended from China. New or old.
You are right, there’s no aboriginal Taiwanese gangs but there are a lot of aboriginal Taiwanese in the 3 main gangs in this video.
But most of the gangsters after the 80’s are mostly Taiwan born and Taiwanese speakers （台客）， chew beetle nuts. Although some of the first gen of the bamboo came from China, but 99% of the members are Taiwanese and not from mainland.
@@Puffy_Puff Yep, david is right. a lot of aborignals are recruited due to socioeconomic circumstances
90 percent of people in Taiwan descend from Mainland China. It's whether it's before or after WW2 that makes the difference. Aboriginies are not really urbanized in Taiwan - and are a very small population.
@@Puffy_Puff What is a "Taiwanese" speaker???? they don't speak Mandarin or Minnan dialects anymore? When did that change?
Can you share your source that says that sitting members are immune from imprisonment?
I am US Army in Taiwan currently trying to wrap my head around this place.
i've 20 years here and still wrapping my head around it.
🤩🤩🤩🤩 bruhh. I was waiting for the Taiwanese Sets of Triads. Respects ❤🇨🇦🇨🇦🔥😎
Great research and effort on this. Fantastic documentary.
Well done! your work is phenomenal
The connection between organized crimes and those currently running the government run much deeper. The current president Tsai has deep crime family background as well
interesting. can you tell us more
@@yuhengliu153 wow. is he powerful?
I heard her family work for the Japanese as a housekeeper & maid during Japan invasion
Great video, Taiwan's gang problem is indeed very serious and has infiltrated into all aspects of the country.
But Taiwan is considered one of the most safest countries in the world. I'm confused by this. Is it dangerous on the street or at night there? Or only certain areas?
@@lexbraxman9270 Try not to go to complicated places or get involved with gangs, and avoid causing trouble in their territory. Generally speaking, it is very safe.
@@lexbraxman9270normally, it’s the gang members that don’t want to have anything to do with you haha so unless you go out of your way to provoke them, you gonna be safe
Phenomenal video 😎✌️The interview with Seki was great too
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!
Had a friendly 8+9 brother explain some local history of groups once when we were drinking, but nothing as in depth as this video. really well researched
Interesting vid. I might have missed it, but did you cite your sources? I'm not doubting the information is factual; I would just be interested in further reading. Kindly provide a bibliography. I'm guessing the books are within your reaching distance. Many thanks.
Info based on a book in the description.
Shout out to Asia
This shit went hard
Taiwan is fascinating tbh, especially the "Tiandihui" situation.
As the Qing stepped foot into China thru their conquest by Nurhaci, the Mings and whatever remnant that survived all fled to Taiwan and set up a new dynasty that's aligned to the Ming and held out for at least a decade before properly being annexed by the Qings. Those that survived the 2nd purge yet again went underground and started their own guerilla campaign in Taiwan against the Qings and even went as far as to send members into the coastal cities of China like Guangdong, Suzhou, Shanghai etc etc to start their rebellion campaigns.
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great video
23:20--good job proving his point!
Quite interesting. Thx for the content.
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In my opinions , traditional Taiwanese gang adapts Japanese ways of handling businesses... fight the strong ones , and protect the weak. Collect protection money means they also lend out a hand whenever they need to . And their strict codes of disciplinary in their gang somewhat similar to Japanese gang.
Protect the weak????? It only exists in your fantasize wonderland.
Thanks Mike! For a sec thought you forgot about forgotten streets!
Can I ask where you get your sources from? It's not easy to find proper sources on these topics unless it's usually from a book.
Great video and very informative
The report he was was reading was very biased against the KMT. It was definitely written by DPP/ Pro Independence type of people.
this channels great keep it up
Great video! Waiting for more TW gang series. Some suggestions:
1. Try not to use AI in the video. You can find many info of many bamboo gang member on wiki or Taiwan news or tv shows (if you understand Mandarin).
2. Bamboo is really a pure TW gang, somehow this video made it seem like it’s a gang from China. But it really isn’t. My father is the classmate and a very good friend of the main bamboo leader (Chen Chi-li), my father is also an immigrant from China, but the gang is really started with most Taiwanese. And yes they did fight local gangs.
Wrong
@@wolfgang4free what is wrong?
@@Puffy_Puffbamboo union was born out of the Chinese that immigrated to Taiwan after losing the civil war. So yes, it's Taiwanese in the sense that they're Chinese who rose to power in Taiwan, but they excluded the aboriginal Taiwanese people.
It's like how things that purely "American" might refer to the United States, but they're not "Native American" who are the "pure Americans".
this video is great but why did you put that nasty filter over the whole video
Sir, can you please do a video on the '上海佬菠蘿事件' (Shanghainese Pineapple Incident)? 🤔
The reason why I ask you, is that it was a BIG political incident that happened in Hong Kong during the 1960s; and was covered well in the HK news media over the years.
You can say that it has similar political ties with post-WWII (since you have covered some important members political figures of the KMT on this video), and as well as all the Hong Kong street riots; that happened in recent years/decades.
...Have you ever heard of that kinda '蘇州屎' before? 😲
The local kids picked on Later Immigrant kids because of the persecution regular Taiwanese suffered at the hands of the KMT regime. The local gangs disliked Late Immigrant gangs because gangs are naturally territorial, and these new Late Immigrant gangs are basically pushing local gangs out of their established territories by leveraging their connections with the KMT regime. Of course, when Black Gold really started, the KMT was reliant on local gangs down in southern and rural areas to manipulate the election.
Don't fall for the kmt victim claim. They do it all over usa culture. It's their schitck. Boo hoo my white suburban school mocked My custom made Chinese lunch. Who ever heard of that by chinayown kids who didnt have white classmates or nobody toisanese. My mother didn't hand wrap dumplings for my lunch. She made whatever the other kids were having. Sandwiches. Some of those white kids couldn't afford lunchboxes and were renters using the laundromat and actually made no more money than chinatown ppl believe it or not. They were very out of pocket sending kids to catholic school which got no govt funding and had no cafeteria, nothing special. They didn't want their kids to be criminals and if u talk 2 old Irish ladies they still say that all of their kids turned out non criminals in careers like crossing guards but also expat execs.
Feels so weird seeing this..
Anywho.. ..nice depiction and very well portrayed into this way of telling..👍
Tnx for sharing..🤝🤙
This video was extremely well-done with lots of good information and useful concepts
Great job man
This is a excellent video
Do more videos on Asian American gangs
You mean those viet kids doing petty crimes and acting black?
I love all your videos about Gangsters History, thinking about where is the history about Ghost Shadows?
We had a video up. But were guna do a new one.
@@forgottenstreets Like update the Ghost Shadows videos?
@@forgottenstreets Just a small correction: The photo of Lin Dingli in this video was actually of ROCAF Colonel general Chen Ce, who committed suicide in 1949.
Very nice. Thank you
It's a very interesting video even for foreign born Chinese like me. 👍😊
You thinking of using AI Art for these videos
Lee teng hui is also pro japanese.
Yeah how ironic the west boosted him up - when he was a volunteer for the Japanese Imperial Army to fight the west. Politics is dirtier than gangsterism.
How about the forgotten Singapore gangs history?
Note that the so called "settlers" before the 1940s consist primarily of people from the southern part of what's called Fujian Province today, they spoke a totally different language than the immigrants that came in the 40s and 50s. It's not quite fair to roughly refer to them all as the same groups of people who just came earlier because they were completely different ethnic groups in the first place. There are Cantonese, Hokkien, Shanghainese, Sichuanese and many other languages spoken in China, they pretty much couldn't communicate with each other before Mandarin was forced on them.
Yea i understand that and youre right. But for the sake of making a video I simplified it. Thank you.
bad translations on the title, it should be House of Cards in Taiwan 1960s.
Chiang and his son both died stating they were the rightful rulers of China and take it back one day. They never set up Taiwan as it's own country
Taiwanese gangs are friendly as long as you don't get in their way. I came across some of them past midnight but they seemed respectful.
Red Door?
The japanese gangsters that replaced tian di, you said lang lin, i reckon its lang ren, ronins
Hi，我是台灣人，聽長輩說，台灣以前治安非常差，黑幫比現在更加猖獗，那時候毒品真的超級便宜，而且吸食安非他命並不違法，所以許多那個年代的孩子都會吸食和接觸，當時每天都有幫派為了爭地盤死人的新聞，每年都有新的十大槍擊要犯排名，所以才導致最後政府實在受不了進行了多次治平專案全國大規模掃黑，不過你說的沒錯，小幫派可能消失了，但大型幫派都還在，現在都轉型商業化了，台灣黑幫之所以如此猖獗主要原因就是當年國民党將全中國的主要黑社會帶來台灣，並默許他們的存在，但是現在的竹聯幫等外省幫至少90%都是台灣本地人，且並不為中國政府效力，希望你能看完，謝謝您
這部影片就是30多年前，台灣青少年的日常生活，所以我們都覺得很寫實，可以參考！
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蔣在大陸時候靠特務和黑帮治國，杜月笙便是最出名的了。但黑幫始终是不能公開活動，所以他們和國民黨的警察一起混。
共產黨上台，黑幫唯有跑去台湾和香港混，英國殖民地政府在50／60 年代香港投鼠忌器不敢動14K唯1970年代大力鏟除，1997年之後任誰都不敢鬧了！
東廠下線來替綠共洗白白了嗎？黑金就是老番顛搞出來的唷…
That sounds like adopting jiageya and sokaiya from japan
They need to make this history into a movie or series, just change up the names and we have a hit
Just saw the Taiwan news today that 和勝和 from Hong Kong expanded to Taiwan and working deeply with 天道盟。since China took over HK, this forced them to expand oversea.
who kidnapped fake displaced guy Alastair onglingswan in Manila? A lone operator or triad?
These guys sound like REALLY BAD NEWS '壞傢伙'... Would never ever wanna mess with 'em!
Actually, it is actually thought of in terms of organized crime.
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Thank you for making this video and now we know the history of Taiwan’s mafia. But I wish the Taiwan government can stop them and prevent the next generation will be effected by the gangsters. If not and the Formosa will become the gangsters island!
Nowadays gangster in taiwan had lost lots of their violent list n power. some were become businessman, other simply retired.. i been to taiwan dozen times, public safety was better than many part of the world. Security was tight..
I think past 20 years taiwanese gangster gradually shrink, just like japanese yakuza. It still alive n occasionally do evil deeds, but nothing like before
I’m getting Roanapur from Black Lagoon vibes
Back when I was DJin' I was Booked to do a couple of Gigs there by a Street Gang out of Tai Chung Taiwan, One of the best times I have ever had, There was a Guy named Penny, He learned English by watching Rap Videos lol😂 Dude talked like 50cent!
Gangsters Delight
Still one of the safest countries in Asia
great video, I did one on this same topic years back. yes, the KMT and Chang Kai sheck partnered with the green gang as enforcers and quasi black police and militia, he brought all these bad seeds with him to Taiwan when he got his butt kicked by Mao commies, and they populated Taiwan all over the place in 1947 to 1949
Taiwan parliament fought long before hk legco drama.
Hwy i been working on not showing weakness by getting out of charter and loose face sorry big and Lil brothers and sisters for me. Talking crazy i take responsibility and ask for forgiveness
KMT is the biggest gang in Taiwan as we speak. However, they still listen to their boss CPP😂 how F ironic
That's very filipino politics and now nyc politics in that u enter 2 change laws to self benefit.
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The influece of communist governments with organize crime is no joke. In Latin America virtually all gangs have a connection with communist political parties. For example, the Comado de Melo in Brazil was formed by communist in prison and it has a close relationship with the PT (current government in power). In Venezuela the government uses "colectivos" which are literally form by prisoners and gangsters who were pardon in exchange of killing and harrasing democracy candidates. The protest that rocked latin America from 2019 to 2022 were a relatiation by Venezuelan government to democracies in the region for opposing it. You had random protest about a 20 cent increase in train fairs in Chile, a country with the GDP per capita of the Czech Republic (Chechia), resulting in billions of dollars of damages and bombs planted by "protestors" who happened to be illegal immigrants from Venezuela with a criminal record..
I think he treat of those gangs in Tiawan due to their links with CCP are very real, as seen in Hong Kong with triats beating up protestors (legitimate ones) a few years ago.
0:43 He said the thing
United bamboo is also in Chinatown LA they try to recruit me in the 90s 😂
Sounds exactly like what happened after WW1 to US’
Im so glad Henry liu is remembered here. Its really not right. The aborigine who was only 1 of 3 ppl who would speak 2 me on the study tour said his Yale classmate went by a fake name bcuz his father had a different opinion that displeased kuomintang.
I think taiwan diaspora working w govts is unique and being red carpet honored as if legitimate and just getting carte Blanche and that comes from kmt origin of wanting 2b aristocratic. Thats pretty toxic but every1 bows 2 money. No one minds if u r evil just if u r poor.
a gangster with a B.A someone you definitely dont wanna mess with LOL
United Bamboo Gang 竹聯幫, The Four Seas Gang 四海幫 & the Celestial Alliance 天道盟. no one can compare the CCP gang in China
Big gangs are also in the west. Look at t r u m p.
Countries are like gangs too. The bigger ones pick on weaker countries to exploit them for political convenience and alliance. Gangs are everywhere in the 🌎. This is just another dark side of a very dark humanity.
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Native Taiwanese aren’t han chinese, they’re Austronesians.
Maybe one China might not be a bad idea after all... this really has changed my mind about Taiwan... All though it shouldn't considering Shek was their original gangster raiding the coffers and living like a king
I had to laugh at the report he read saying the gangs are not "patriotic" anymore because they support reunification. LOL> Prior to the 1990's if you claimed Taiwan was "independent" you would be called "unpatriotic". My how times have changed. The KMT are Chinese nationalists... They didn't start a new country. I wonder who wrote this.
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he said tyan da way LMAO i know da wey
Lol. Like Australia, Taiwan also has criminal blood line. Lmao
It is pronounced "tee-yen dee hway"
Jay z cousin Wendy Carter involved
The video makes Taiwan seem dangerous, Taiwan is one of the safest countries in the World. Gangs leaves civilians alone, they fight among themselves.
Youre right man. Sorry if thats how it came off. This was trying to show that Taiwan’s underworld and political world is dangerous. But yes most of the citizens are living safely.
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Nope. It's basically ex husband of barbie Hsu pretending he carries a torch for her when it is so unlikely he ever cared or that she had ANY leverage. It is LITERALLY that similar as if designed to represent china's position and taiwans vanity craving the delusion.
When USA finally depletes
Jimmy Wang Yu was nutter fighting on and off screen he was in some wicked kung-fu flicks .
He is also a member of the United Bamboo, story goes he had beef with some of the four seas and they stabbed and beat the shit out of him at the under ground gambling den ,
So he went to Chen Chi Li for advice and Chen Chi Li eventually ordered the revenge hit on the people that were responsible for the beat down on Wang Yu.
After that Wang Yu became one of the United Bamboo member and was a dear friend with Chen Chi Li.
@@sunnyboy8644 his life is crazy like his movies I'm a big fan oh him.
@@brendanduffy2710 R.I.P. to both of them 🙏
Always keep ya left hand in ya pocket when ya drink turn away in talking whith another
Damn I never knew they so gangster over there