The gangsters who were really officials and the officials who were really gangsters
Andrew Nathan: The ‘faceless fellow’ of Chinese espionage, 24 June 2004
Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service
by Frederic Wakeman Jr..
California, 650 pp., £49.95, May 2003,0 520 23407 3 Show More
by Frederic Wakeman Jr..
California, 650 pp., £49.95, May 2003,
“... Frederic Wakeman has long been fascinated with the police and criminals of pre-Communist Shanghai, who were as often each other’s allies as opponents. His first book on the subject, Policing Shanghai 1927-37 (1995), described the self-subverting involvement of the new Kuomintang government’s municipal police bureau in both the opium trade and the civil war against the Communists ... ”
