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Auction: CSS118B - China Banknotes and Coins
Lot: 1013

Jiang Xia Tang, Seattle, United States, China crowdfunding receipt of $5, (Yi)si year (1905), despite the wide influence of the Heaven and Earth Society among overseas Chinese communities, the organisations were generally loose and lacked formal leadership. The failure of the Hundred Days Reform in China in 1898 lead to the movement leaders fleeing overseas, and they saw these rebel communities as a means to spread their own ideologies of supporting the Qing dynasty government under the guise of Reformation. The general low level of education of the overseas communities meant that the Reformers were able successfully seize control of these societies or divert support from within to set up their own Royalist organisations such as the present example.
Extremely Fine. Water Stains


光緒乙巳年舍路埠（美國西雅圖）江夏堂伍美元捐款收據，EF品相，有水漬。其時海外洪門組織林立，但缺乏文士。戊戌變法失敗之後，維新勢力逃往各地並投入致公堂，圖謀其黨中權力，在宣揚變革救國同時大倡保皇扶滿，成功募集不少資金

Estimate
HK$800 to HK$1,500

Starting price
HK$800