The Xiezhi Triad in Argentina

Photo: 佳源 Jia Yuan Good Source Supermarket, San Telmo, Buenos Aires.

A few years ago, the police in Buenos Aires busted a Chinese mafia group known as the Pixiu Triad. I wrote about this group and its activities in my article published in the LA Review of Books, China Channel. Inspired by those real events, I chose the xiezhi to be the symbol of the Chinese triad gang that plays a central role in my forthcoming crime novel ‘Buenos Aires Triad’.

Pixiu? Xiezhi? What the hell are those?

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