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Wakeman, Frederic E.

Spymaster Dai Li and the Chinese secret service Dai li and the Chinese secret service Frederic Wakeman, jr. - Berkeley University of California Press 2003 - xvii, 650 p ill., maps 24 cm

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book. Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-577) and index.

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..

ISBN: 0520234073

Subjects--Personal Names:
Dai, Li 1896-1946

Subjects--Topical Terms:
History -- Biography -- Dai Li -- Republican Era--History--China--20th century
History -- Secret Service -- Nationalist Regime -- Republican Era
Generals--China--Biography