Kebanyakan anggota honghuzi berasal dari wilayah Tiongkok sebenarnya.[2] Banyak di antara mereka yang sebelumnya merupakan seorang tentara atau pengangguran.[3]
^Felix Patrikeeff, Harold Shukman (2007). Railways and the Russo-Japanese War: transporting war. Taylor & Francis. hlm. 53. ISBN0-7146-5721-2. Diakses tanggal 18 March 2012. Another hazard faced by the Russian soldiers when they reached Manchuria was that of the Hunghutze, nomadic bandits, many of whom had migrated to Manchuria from China proper, but had done so as outlaws and criminals.Pemeliharaan CS1: Menggunakan parameter penulis (link)
^Ferdinand Ossendowski, Lewis Stanton Palen (2005). Man and Mystery in Asia (edisi ke-reprint). Kessinger Publishing. hlm. 156. ISBN1-4179-1071-2. Diakses tanggal 18 March 2012. though the tiger men are for the most part themselves Chinese. They are separate, well-organized gangs of hunghutzes recruited from among the millions of the constantly hungry sons of the State of Heaven, the coolies out of work or the deserters from the undisciplined Chinese army.Pemeliharaan CS1: Menggunakan parameter penulis (link)
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