Spying for the People

Mao's Secret Agents, 1949–1967

Bibliographic Data

ID19945577
AuthorsMichael Schoenhals (Lund University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-02-18
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueSpying for the People (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139084765
OpenAlexW4255928086
Open LibraryOL25290446M
ISBN9781139084765
LanguageEN
Citations received14

Since the end of the Cold War, the operations of secret police informers have come under the media spotlight and it is now common knowledge that vast internal networks of spies in the Soviet Union and East Germany were directed by the Communist Party. By contrast, very little historical information has been available on the covert operations of the security services in Mao Zedong's China. However, as Michael Schoenhals reveals in this intriguing and sometimes sinister account, public security was a top priority for the founders of the People's Republic and agents were recruited from all levels of society to ferret out 'counter-revolutionaries'. On the basis of hitherto classified archival records, the book tells the story of a vast surveillance and control apparatus through a detailed examination of the cultivation and recruitment of agents, their training and their operational activities across a twenty-year period from 1949 to 1967

Art · Business · China · Cold war · Communism · Covert · Espionage · Order (exchange) · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Soviet union · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · German Security and Defense Policies · Law · Public Administration · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · 20th century · asia · Domestic intelligence · History · Intelligence service · Internal security · secret service · Spies

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