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江湖
jiāng hú
Definitions
- •rivers and lakes
- •all corners of the country
- •remote areas to which hermits retreat
- •section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law
- •the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wǔ xiá])
- •(in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc
- •demimonde
- •(in modern times) triads
- •secret gangster societies
- •underworld