In 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western powers and the Japanese. The story of Chinese spies has been a global one from the start. Unearthing previously unseen papers and interviewing countless insiders, Roger Faligot's astonishing account reveals nothing less than a century of world events shaped by Chinese spies. Working as scientists, journalists, diplomats, foreign students and businessmen, they've been everywhere, from Stalin's purges to 9/11. This murky world has swept up Ho Chi Minh, the Clintons and everyone in between, with the action moving from Cambodia to Cambridge, and from the Australian outback to the centres of Western power. This fascinating narrative exposes the sprawling tentacles of the world's largest intelligence service, from the very birth of communist China to Xi Jinping's absolute rule today.

About the Author
Roger Faligot is an investigative journalist and author of many books on European and Asian intelligence, including The Chinese Mafia in Europe and La Piscine, the first history of France's secret services. He has been a correspondent for The European, and Far East correspondent for Intelligence Online (1993-2018).

Reviews

'This is an intense book. [Chinese Spies] is the result of huge research but also demonstrates the author's immense knowledge of the politics, attitudes and identities of the political elite of the People's Republic of China.'

-- Asian Affairs Journal



Book Information
ISBN 9781787380967
Author Roger Faligot
Format Hardback
Page Count 568
Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Publisher C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd