Spying for the People - Mao''s Secret Agents, 1949-1967

Informationen zum Autor Professor Michael Schoenhals has researched the politics and history of the People's Republic of China for more than twenty-five years. Now at Lund University, his publications on the subject include Doing Things With Words in Chinese Politics: Five Studies (1992) and, with Roderick MacFarquhar, Mao's Last Revolution (2006). In 2003, the Swedish Research Council awarded him the prestigious 'researcher of excellence' title. Klappentext This book reveals the covert operations of Mao's public security organs through an examination of the recruitment of agents, their training and their operational activities. Zusammenfassung In this fascinating account! Michael Schoenhals reveals the domestic covert operations of Mao's public security organs through a detailed examination of the cultivation and recruitment of their agents! their training and their operational activities. These revelations! based on hitherto classified documents! enrich our understanding of modern China's troubled social history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Public security: the institutional framework; 2. Agents by category: informers, enablers, and guardians; 3. The recruitment base: where utility trumps class; 4. Finding the right man for the job: operational profiling; 5. Recruitment; 6. Training and tradecraft: behind the covert front; 7. Agent running: Beijing rules.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Schoenhals, Michael (Lunds Universitet Schoenhals, Schoenhals Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2013
• EAN: 9781107017870
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01787-0
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; China, History, HISTORY / Asia / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Politics & government, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1950 to c 1959, Asian History, c 1960 to c 1969, Espionage and secret services