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03462aam a2200409 i 4500 001 2D50ADEEE2DD11E284C630D7DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130702010114 008 120404s2013 nyuaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012013901 020 $a 1107017874 (hardback) 020 $a 9781107017870 (hardback) 020 $a 1107603447 (paperback) 020 $a 9781107603448 (paperback) 035 $a (OCoLC)786161706 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d BWX $d IUL $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a JQ1509.5.I6 $b S36 2013 082 00 $a 327.1251009/045 $2 23 100 1 $a Schoenhals, Michael. 245 10 $a Spying for the people : $b Mao's secret agents, 1949-1967 / $c Michael Schoenhals. 260 $a New York : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2013. 300 $a ix, 266 pages, [8] pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 505 0 $a 1. Public security: the institutional framework -- 2. Agents by category: informers, enablers, and guardians -- 3. The recruitment base: where utility trumps class -- 4. Finding the right man for the job: operational profiling -- 5. Recruitment -- 6. Training and tradecraft: behind the covert front -- 7. Agent running: Beijing rules. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-258) and index. 520 $a "In this fascinating account, Michael Schoenhals tells the story of the domestic covert operations of Mao's public security organs through a detailed examination of the cultivation and recruitment of their agents, their training, and their operational activities"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Since 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,WÌs 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,WÌs Republic, and agents were recruited from all levels of society to provide intelligence and ferret out ,zÌcounter-revolutionaries.,ZÌ 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. These revelations add an entirely new dimension to modern China,WÌs troubled social and political history. Although the story may be safely set in the past, the development of human sources to sustain an oppressive domestic order is nothing if not eerily relevant to students of the present"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Intelligence service $z China $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Secret service $z China $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Spies $z China $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Domestic intelligence $z China $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Internal security $z China $x History $y 20th century. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826070743.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20130702020930.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2D50ADEEE2DD11E284C630D7DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search