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Author Wakeman, Frederic E.

Title Spymaster [electronic resource] : Dai Li and the Chinese secret service / Frederic Wakeman, jr.

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

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xvii, 650 p. : ill., maps.
Note "A Philip E. Lilienthal book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-577) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Dai, Li, 1896-1946.
Secret service -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Generals -- China -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Dai li and the Chinese secret service
ISBN 0520234073 (Cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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