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Du Yuesheng
Du Yuesheng was a Shanghai gangster who rose to lead the Green Gang and became one of the most powerful men in the city between the world wars. Based in the French Concession, he controlled the opium trade and gambling, and in 1927 his men helped Chiang Kai-shek crush the communist-led labour unions. He fled to Hong Kong in 1949 and died there.
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