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NY’s Chinatown Wars: Ghost Shadows, Hong Kong Triads, Tongs, and the China White Heroin Connection

2021/10/11
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Danny Gold: 本期节目讲述了20世纪70年代和80年代纽约唐人街帮派战争的故事，重点关注鬼影帮和飞龙帮，以及他们与香港三合会和社团的联系，以及这些帮派与来自缅甸的剧毒海洛因“中国白”之间的关系。节目中详细描述了Nicky Louie领导的鬼影帮的崛起和衰落，以及Michael Chen领导的飞龙帮的活动。还介绍了Benny Ong等社团领袖如何利用其在社区中的影响力，参与并控制着唐人街的犯罪活动。节目还探讨了当时纽约警察局对唐人街帮派活动的忽视，以及唐人街居民对警方的不信任感。最后，节目总结了20世纪90年代初联邦调查局对唐人街帮派的大规模打击，以及这些帮派活动对唐人街社区的影响。 Sean Williams: 本期节目从历史角度回顾了纽约唐人街帮派战争的起源和发展，特别关注了社团（Tongs）在其中扮演的角色。节目中详细解释了社团的起源和演变，以及它们如何从互助组织发展成为控制唐人街地下经济的强大势力。Sean Williams还对社团在白市和黑市之间运作的方式进行了分析，并探讨了它们与香港三合会和缅甸鸦片种植者之间的联系。此外，Sean Williams还对唐人街帮派成员的招募方式、帮派之间的冲突以及警方对这些活动的应对进行了分析。

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Nicky Louie, leader of the Ghost Shadows gang, was a significant figure in 1970s Chinatown, known for his charisma and involvement in gang wars.

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When Nicky Louie stalked the streets in the 1970's, he was the first gangster to scare Chinatown in decades. At only 22-years-old, he led his gang of gun-toting teen hitmen known as the Ghost Shadows in countless shootouts against the Flying Dragons. Both street gangs were linked up with the established and secretive community groups known as Tongs that had been operating and controlling Chinatown since the 1890's. Together, the gangs and tongs ran the protection and gambling rackets, getting a piece of every single business in the neighborhood. But when the tongs linked up with Hong Kong Triads, who themselves had linked up with Burmese opium growers churning out the 95% pure heroin known as China White, things really got interesting.

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