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020			_a9781139084765 (ebook)
020			_z9781107017870 (hardback)
020			_z9781107603448 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aJQ1509.5.I6 _bS36 2013
082	0	0	_a327.1251009/045 _223
100	1		_aSchoenhals, Michael, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSpying for the People : _bMao's Secret Agents, 1949–1967 / _cMichael Schoenhals.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (274 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aSince 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.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107017870
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139084765
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37258 _d37258