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'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 provide intelligence and 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. These revelations add an entirely new dimension to modern China's 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.
0 有用 呆呆鹅 2023-01-21 11:07:16 安徽
2023【3】海星,对spy作的简单系统的梳理介绍,稍微入个门,有一定资料基础,主要集中于高层要害部门的考察、以及对整个system运作的分析,case study少。这样来看,我们的system和其他国家相比之下没有太大的区别,因此此书也显得有些无聊,缺乏特色的、typical的特征。在system和社会之间,将spy运用于基层治理,政治史和社会史的交叉,应该会是更有意思的地方。
0 有用 橘子 2020-07-30 23:39:54
想托沈迈克教授给自己的著作写个推荐语
0 有用 范宏云 2020-07-14 06:14:36
潘汉年什么下场,自古间谍,背叛师友,离间骨肉,不得好死是基本结局,至亲尚能毒害,何况权势者,自然不被信用,天下初定就需铲除此类不忠不孝不仁不义黑心毒辣的家伙
0 有用 一切归零 2020-07-14 06:02:36
没有功劳也有苦劳吧……
0 有用 嘿嘿 2014-08-19 03:33:44
太猛.....一直想找人把这书翻出来,但是版权是大问题, Cambridge 要价太高了.....
0 有用 呆呆鹅 2023-01-21 11:07:16 安徽
2023【3】海星,对spy作的简单系统的梳理介绍,稍微入个门,有一定资料基础,主要集中于高层要害部门的考察、以及对整个system运作的分析,case study少。这样来看,我们的system和其他国家相比之下没有太大的区别,因此此书也显得有些无聊,缺乏特色的、typical的特征。在system和社会之间,将spy运用于基层治理,政治史和社会史的交叉,应该会是更有意思的地方。
0 有用 橘子 2020-07-30 23:39:54
想托沈迈克教授给自己的著作写个推荐语
0 有用 范宏云 2020-07-14 06:14:36
潘汉年什么下场,自古间谍,背叛师友,离间骨肉,不得好死是基本结局,至亲尚能毒害,何况权势者,自然不被信用,天下初定就需铲除此类不忠不孝不仁不义黑心毒辣的家伙
0 有用 一切归零 2020-07-14 06:02:36
没有功劳也有苦劳吧……
3 有用 冬天吃雪糕 2017-06-18 03:50:46
刚刚读完大失所望,叙述性,分析都是细枝末节,中规中矩的一本历史书,唯一的优点是此话题还没有人系统写过,食之无味弃之可惜。