Spymaster : Dai Li and the Chinese secret service / Frederic Wakeman.
Spymaster : Dai Li and the Chinese secret service / Frederic Wakeman.
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Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c2003.
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N327.1251/ 3
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 650 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Images of Dai Li -- 2. Living off the Land -- 3. Touben -- 4. The League of Ten -- 5. "Vigorous Practice": The Chiang Freemasonry -- 6. The Founding of the Lixingshe -- 7. The Lixingshe and the Blue Shirts -- 8. The Blue Shirts' "Fascism" -- 9. Ideological Rivalries: The Blue Shirts and the "CC"...
App. C. Terms of the Sino-American Special Technical Cooperation Agreement -- App. D. Saco Training Units.
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Publisher
Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c2003.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
c2003.
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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...
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Spymaster : Dai Li and the Chinese secret service / Frederic Wakeman.
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Dai li and the Chinese secret service.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-577) and index.
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c2003.
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N327.1251/ 3
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74VKDg6oXkXl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKDg6oXkXl
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ISBN
0520234073 :
9780520234079 (Cloth : alk. paper)
0520234073 (Cloth : alk. paper)
9780520234079 :
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327.12510092
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991019035509702626
