Chinese spies : from Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping
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Chinese spies : from Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping
Hurst & Company, c2019
Updated English ed
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Services secrets chinois
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"First published in French by Nouveau Monde as Les services secrets chinois in 2008 (second edition 2015)"--T. p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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In 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 spies 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.
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