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

• Autore: Wakeman Frederic E
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (674 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.1251/0092; B
• Soggetto topico: Secret service - China - History - 20th century; Generals - China
• Note generali: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-577) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Dai li and the Chinese secret service
• Titolo autorizzato: Spymaster
• ISBN: 0-520-92876-8; 1-59734-915-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823902203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II