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Author Faligot, Roger, author.

Title Chinese spies : from Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping / Roger Faligot ; translated by Natasha Lehrer.

Publication Info. London : Hurst & Company, 2019.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  327.1251 FALIGOT    Check Shelf
Edition Updated English edition.
Description xi, 507 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language In English, translated from the French.
Note "First published in French by Nouveau Monde as Les services secrets chinois in 2008 (second edition 2015"--Title page verso).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "N 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western powers and the Japanese. The story of Chinese espionage has been a global one from the start. Unearthing previously unseen papers and interviewing countless insiders, Roger Faligot's astonishing account reveals nothing less than a century of world events shaped by Chinese spies. Working as scientists, journalists, diplomats, foreign students and businessmen, they've been everywhere, from Stalin's purges to 9/11. This murky world has swept up Ho Chi Minh, the Clintons and everyone in between, with the action moving from Cambodia to Cambridge, and from the Australian outback to the centres of Western power. This fascinating narrative exposes the sprawling tentacles of the world's largest intelligence service, from the very birth of communist China to Xi Jinping's absolute rule today."--Publisher's description.
Contents Part One. The Battle for Shanghai ; Mao's Secret Service ; The Spies' Cultural Revolution ; Deng Xiaoping's Deep-Water Fish ; 55 Days at Tiananmen ; Operation Autumn Orchid, Hong Kong -- Part Two. Jiang Zemin's Global Intelligence ; China and Russia vs America ; Sea Lamprey Tactics: Economic Warfare ; The 610 Office and the Five Poisons -- Part Three. Cyber-Warriors of the PLA ; Beijing 2008 : China Wins the Espionage Gold ; Zhou's Failed Coup: The Guoanbu Saves Xi Jinping ; Xi's Mole Hunt and the Birth of the Strategic Support Force.
Subject Secret service -- China.
Intelligence service -- China -- History.
Intelligence service. (OCoLC)fst00975848
Secret service. (OCoLC)fst01110661
China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
Geheimdienst (DE-588)4019737-2
China (DE-588)4009937-4
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Lehrer, Natasha, translator.
Translation of (expression): Faligot, Roger. Services secrets chinois : de Mao aux JO. English.
Container of (expression): Faligot, Roger. Services secrets chinois. English.
Added Title Services secrets chinois. English
Translation Of: Translation of: Faligot, Roger. Services secrets chinois. Paris : Nouveau monde, 2008 9782847363029 (DLC) 2008398294 (OCoLC)212327398
ISBN 9781787380967 (hardback)
1787380963 (hardback)
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