Frederic Wakeman Jr. is Haas Professor of Asian Studies in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941 (1996), Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (California, 1995), and The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (California, 1985), among others.
The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of "China's Himmler," based on recently opened intelligence archives, traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the dreaded Military Statistics Bureau: the world's largest spy and counterespionage organization of its time.
In addition to exposing the inner workings of the secret police, whose death squads, kidnappings, torture, and omnipresent surveillance terrorized critics of the Nationalist regime, Dai Li's personal story opens a unique window on the clandestine history of China's Republican period. This study uncovers the origins of the Cold War in the interactions of Chinese and American special services operatives who cooperated with Dai Li in the resistance to the Japanese invasion in the 1930s and who laid the groundwork for an ongoing alliance against the Communists during the revolution that followed in the 1940s. Frederic Wakeman Jr. illustrates how the anti-Communist activities Dai Li led altered the balance of power within the Chinese Communist Party, setting the stage for Mao Zedong's rise to supremacy. He reveals a complex and remarkable personality that masked a dark presence in modern China—one that still pervades the secret services on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Wakeman masterfully illuminates a previously little-understood world as he discloses the details of Chinese secret service trade-craft. Anyone interested in the development of modern espionage will be intrigued by Spymaster, which spells out in detail the ways in which the Chinese used their own traditional methods, in addition to adapting foreign ways, to create a modern intelligence service.
真的不行。 我没有受过专业历史训练,但是看过其他的论文,这个是真不行。 1.目标很大,戴笠和中国特工。这目标太大了,根本写不成,一个简简单单的刺杀都可以写成一本书,从时局引申到政治,有了前提条件才能引申出为什么有特工,以及特工的组织,这都是水到渠成的,而作者想...
评分真的不行。 我没有受过专业历史训练,但是看过其他的论文,这个是真不行。 1.目标很大,戴笠和中国特工。这目标太大了,根本写不成,一个简简单单的刺杀都可以写成一本书,从时局引申到政治,有了前提条件才能引申出为什么有特工,以及特工的组织,这都是水到渠成的,而作者想...
评分说实话,还没读完,本没有评论全书的权利,但也想吐吐槽。 想八卦戴笠的人,就不建议读这本书了,一如魏斐德的风格,中立和史实,对于其人只描述,少评论。 之前读过他的《洪业》,觉得两本书有相似的风格,虽然一个写人,一个写朝代,而且都是史料和数据一大堆,但是读起来...
评分翻译的很一般. 主线不突出,凌乱琐碎,重复. 大概题目把我的预期提高太多了,看后未免觉得失望.
评分昨夜的梦中,本校某个知名学者因言获罪,在报上发表尖锐时评后被秘密逮捕。在一阵强烈的恐惧和愤怒之后,我醒了过来,打开手机,时间:三点五十六分。 静下来之后,我想到最近读的这本书。戴笠通过魏老的文字复活,走到了我身边。很久很久,没有一本史学著作的内容进入过我...
生為國家,死為國家,平生具俠義風,功罪蓋棺猶未定;名滿天下,謗滿天下,亂世行春秋事,是非留待後人評。
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评分生為國家,死為國家,平生具俠義風,功罪蓋棺猶未定;名滿天下,謗滿天下,亂世行春秋事,是非留待後人評。
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评分1 2 6 7 12-15 22 23
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