Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service
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...
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"A tour de force. Wakeman combines his vast knowledge of Chinese history, his own work on China's police, his skill as a storyteller, and his ten years of being entranced with Dai Li, Chiang Kaishek's Himmler, to bring to life one of China's most imaginative and horrible demons."—Ezra F. Vogel, author of One Step Ahead: Guangdong Under Reform"Wakeman masterfully pieces together, in fascinating and extraordinary detail, the rise of Chiang Kai-shek's top spymaster, Dai Li. Spymaster captures Dai's persona, explains the extraordinary personal trust Chiang placed in him, and reveals how Dai wielded power from the end of the 1920s to his death in 1946. This comprehensive and meticulous volume brings us into the core structures of Chiang's power and sheds light on many previously dark corners of the Republican body politic. It deeply enriches our knowledge not only of Dai Li and of the Chinese secret service but also of this entire period in Republican China"—Kenneth Lieberthal, author of Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform"If Sherlock Holmes had been an historian, the result might have been Frederic Wakeman's astonishing and enthralling story of Dai Li, longtime master of a vast secret world of political intrigue, police terror, drug smuggling, and predatory sex, but also America's collaborator in WWII, whose fingerprints are all over decades of China's twentieth-century history. Thanks to the mountain of evidence uncovered by Wakeman, Dai Li is no longer 'the mystery man of Asia.'"—Stephen F. Cohen, author of Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communism Russia
AcknowledgmentsPrefaceAbbreviationsMaps1Images of Dai Li12Living off the Land123Touben244The League of Ten365"Vigorous Practice": The Chiang Freemasonry466The Founding of the Lixingshe557The Lixingshe and the Blue Shirts668The Blue Shirts' "Fascism"859Ideological Rivalries: The Blue Shirts and the "CC" Clique9810The Blue Shirts in the Provinces11011The Shanghai Station, 1932-3513212Death Squads15713Assassinations16814Police Academies18715Sleeping in Their Coffins20616Skirts and Sashes22117War and the Special Movement Corps23718The Training Camps25019Codes 00027220Dai Li, Milton Miles, and the Foundation of SACO28521SACO Training Camps29422Spying30823Dai Li's Wartime Smuggling Networks32024Juntong in Wartime Chongqing33025Falling Star347Afterword: Daemons367App. AOrganization of the General Unit of Special Training369App. BOrganization of Juntong Headquarters, 1943-45371App. CTerms of the Sino-American Special Technical Cooperation Agreement377App. DSaco Training Units379Notes385Bibliography539Glossary-Index579
