TY - BOOK ID - 77861570 TI - Spymaster PY - 2003 SN - 0520928768 1597349151 9780520928763 1417525754 9781417525751 9780520234079 0520234073 9781597349154 PB - Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Secret service KW - Generals KW - Secret police (Secret service) KW - Police KW - Detectives KW - Intelligence service KW - Spies KW - History KW - Dai, Li, KW - Tai, Li, KW - 戴笠, KW - Dai, Yunong, KW - Tai, Yü-nung, KW - 戴雨农, KW - 戴雨濃, KW - Dai, Chunfeng, KW - 戴春風, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77861570 AB - 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. ER -