Preface (2) Principles of local organization reconsidered

I would have to deal much more systematically with correlations between the leadership, scale, and format of local military groups, and with the regional prevenance of the data. ... it would be important to define more precisedly the social and economic characteristics of the border areas where militarization developed earliest, and to define the systematic features of the spread of militarization from such border areas to the core districts of regions.
...more important,... a more methodical treatment of differences between North and South China....I would correct some facile generalizations about the isomorphism between what I termed "orthodox and heterodox" modes of organization in local society.
re-examining the superficial identification of South Chinese secret-society networks (Triads) as essentially heterodox. Myron Cohen...(in personal conversation) ... the Triads was as "illegal, but orthodox. Not only their minicry of orthodox kinship forms, but also their acceptance of conventional (albeit restorationist) views of monarchy as an institution, suggest the appropriateness of including them in the orthodox world.
Naquin (Millenarian Rebellion, p.324) properly criticizes my hypothesis (p.165) that the "same kinds of linkages and the same levels of ortanization" would be found crossing the orthodox and heterodox subcultures. (iv.-v.)