Spymaster : Dai Li and the Chinese secret service /

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-br...

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Main Author: Wakeman, Frederic E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2003.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of 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.