" bloody gangster " is a biography of the underworld drama released by BBC, with an average score of 9.2 in the six seasons of the series. The series mainly tells the story of the legendary gangster family Peaky Blinders (Razor Party) who rose up in the "simple" Birmingham area of England after the First World War .
As an organized violent group, the biggest feature of the Razor Party is that family members will sew razor blades between the brim of their hats. This kind of blade can easily buy and can easily escape police questioning ( "Razor Party"). Origin of the name ). It can be used for decoration every day when you go out to the street. When you need to do a job, it is a sharp tool to hurt people. You can taste it carefully. , family members come standard with custom suits, flared pants and trench coats, plus newsboy caps with hidden razors, the British gangster tone is full.
Then why is "don't mess with the Chinese" so often mentioned in such a British gangster drama? This has to say that at the same time, a Chinese drug lord Brilliant (Billy) Chang (formerly known as Chan Nan) was a powerful Chinese drug lord in the industrial city Birmingham .
Billy Chang
Billy Chang was born into a wealthy businessman family in Guangzhou, whose family made their fortunes in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Like most of the wealthy children of the time, Billy Chang chose to study abroad. In 1913, he came to the UK as an international student. Billy Chang, who was well educated and proficient in many languages, appeared to be the owner of a restaurant in Birmingham, but in fact he was a big drug lord who monopolized about 40% of the drug circulation in the UK. In Britain at the time, "politeness and racial pride" made it difficult for Chinese outsiders to gain the favor of white women. However, Billy Chang's dashing, rich and exotic image has attracted many white women to him, developing them as lovers and allowing them to continue to expand his drug business as drug dealers. The three labels of "yellow race", "bringing white women" and "drugs" made it difficult for him not to be active in the British mass media at that time. Today, when excavating the history of Chinese immigrants in Chinatown in the UK, everyone can always mention Billy Chang.
Billy Chang's one of the white women
, like Billy Chang, immigrated to the UK as an international student, after all, is a minority. Most of the Chinese immigrants in the late Qing Dynasty came to the UK in large numbers through smuggling and human trafficking. They can only do the most tiring jobs at the bottom, such as road building and laundry, and they are discriminated against by whites. The mainstream society hardly takes into account the rights and interests of Chinese people. In order to survive in a difficult environment, Chinese immigrants can only use their fellow villagers, clansmen, and secret associations as ties to protect themselves. When these groups are looking for funding sources, the best sources of money are casinos, opium dens, and brothels. During the conflict of interests, such as land grabbing and fighting between halls, overseas Chinese gangs have gradually formed.
