Spymaster : Dai Li and the Chinese secret service / Frederic Wakeman, jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wakeman, Frederic E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dai, Li, 1896-1946.

Dai, Li.

Secret service--China--History--20th century.

Secret service.

Generals--China--Biography.

Generals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (674 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Dai li and the Chinese secret service

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of ""China's Himmler,"" based on recently opened intelligence archives, traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the dreaded Military Statistics Bureau: the world's largest spy and counterespionage organization of its time.

Contents:

Images of Dai Li

Living off the land

Touben

The league of ten

"Vigorous Practice" : the Chiang freemasonry

The founding of the Lixingshe

The Lixingshe and the blue shirts

The blue shirts' "Fascism"

Ideological rivalries : the blue shirts and the "CC" clique

The blue shirts in the provinces

The Shanghai station, 1932-1935

Death squads

Assassinations

Police academies

Sleeping in their coffins

Skirts and sashes

War and the special movement corps

The training camps

Codes 000

Dai li, Milton Miles, and the foundation of Saco

Saco training camps

Spying

Dai Li's wartime smuggling networks

Juntong in wartime Chongqing

Falling star.

Notes:

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-577) and index.

ISBN:

0-520-92876-8

1-59734-915-1

OCLC:

475928423