Chinese society's brief clothing capturing centre of attention (4)
I believe the answer is:
tong
'chinese society's' is the definition.
(Chinese criminal organisation)
'brief clothing capturing centre of attention' is the wordplay.
'brief clothing' becomes 'tog' (I've seen this in another clue. I am not sure about the 'brief' bit.).
'capturing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'centre of' indicates the central letters.
The centre of 'attention' is 'n'.
'tog' placed around 'n' is 'TONG'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tong that I've seen before include "Pick up - Chinese secret society" , "Chinese guild" , "A Chinese association, may be secret" , "Chinese criminal gang" , "Society of criminals" .)