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4.0
China, Covering Mao to Falun Gong by Faligot
This book is a comprehensive and well-researched book that delves into the world of Chinese espionage. The book provides an in-depth look at the history of Chinese intelligence operations, from the days of Chairman Mao to the present era under President Xi Jinping.
The author, Roger Faligot, is a renowned expert on intelligence and has a deep understanding of the subject matter. He presents a detailed and nuanced account of the evolution of Chinese espionage, highlighting the key players, events, and strategies that have shaped the country's intelligence apparatus over the years.
The book is rich in historical detail and provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of Chinese spies and the operations of their cadres.
One of the strengths of the book is its ability to provide insight into the inner workings of the Chinese intelligence community.
Faligot provides a comprehensive analysis of the different agencies, their roles, and their relationship with the government.
The book is also a valuable resource for understanding the current Chinese political landscape and its implications for the global community.
The book covers the intelligence operations and strategies of the current Chinese government and how it is impacting the world.
The book is a well-written, informative, and engaging read that provides a unique perspective on the world of Chinese espionage.
It is a must-read for anyone interested in intelligence and international relations, as well as anyone looking to understand the inner workings of the Chinese government.
4.2/5
This book is a comprehensive and well-researched book that delves into the world of Chinese espionage. The book provides an in-depth look at the history of Chinese intelligence operations, from the days of Chairman Mao to the present era under President Xi Jinping.
The author, Roger Faligot, is a renowned expert on intelligence and has a deep understanding of the subject matter. He presents a detailed and nuanced account of the evolution of Chinese espionage, highlighting the key players, events, and strategies that have shaped the country's intelligence apparatus over the years.
The book is rich in historical detail and provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of Chinese spies and the operations of their cadres.
One of the strengths of the book is its ability to provide insight into the inner workings of the Chinese intelligence community.
Faligot provides a comprehensive analysis of the different agencies, their roles, and their relationship with the government.
The book is also a valuable resource for understanding the current Chinese political landscape and its implications for the global community.
The book covers the intelligence operations and strategies of the current Chinese government and how it is impacting the world.
The book is a well-written, informative, and engaging read that provides a unique perspective on the world of Chinese espionage.
It is a must-read for anyone interested in intelligence and international relations, as well as anyone looking to understand the inner workings of the Chinese government.
4.2/5
scribepub's review
Chinese Spies is an astounding and unmatched source book on the extraordinary reach of the PRC’s intelligence network. Roger Faligot explains in colourful detail the complex links between the spy agencies, the Party, the Party leaders, Chinese companies and the People’s Liberation Army. At once fascinating and chilling, it’s a book I found hard to put down.
Clive Hamilton, author of Silent Invasion
Roger Faligot fuses an encyclopaedic knowledge of this murky world and its characters with anecdotes that are sometimes comical and often colourful.
Le Point
The expert Roger Faligot offers an enthralling, years-long investigation into the Chinese secret services, delving behind the scenes of Beijing’s global strategy.
Le Parisien
China is not just a country with intelligence services, but rather an intelligence state. In this wide-ranging book, Faligot traces this trajectory from pre-revolutionary Shanghai to the present and reveals a phenomenon for which the West is ill-prepared.
Nigel Inkster, Former Director of Operations and Intelligence, MI6, and Director of Transnational Threats & Political Risk, IISS
A landmark book.’
Paris Match
French journalist Roger Faligot's history of Chinese intelligence from 1921 to the present day is teeming with revelations.
Intellignce Online
Roger Faligot has produced a book stuffed full of scoops on the Chinese secret services.
Métro
The unstoppable rise of the Chinese secret service has seen it grow greater in size than all other intelligence services worldwide ... Roger Faligot’s study traces in full the history of an organisation that has long been successfully diversifying into technological and economic warfare in a new long-term strategy. As Faligot puts it, ‘China’s manpower is unrivalled’, and its vast diaspora network is unique. [Its agents] play a decisive role in conquering new fossil fuel sources; in saturating foreign markets; and in conquering the global cellphone market. Now is the time urgently to read this absolutely fascinating and highly valuable study.
No stone is left unturned in Faligot’s astounding and exhaustive who’s who of Chinese espionage. The revelations prove as scary as the revolutions. Anyone inclined to welcome China’s rediscovered world stature needs to read this book.
John Keay, author of China: A History
Faligot’s detailed and fascinating account of Chinese espionage over the past century argues that “today the community of Chinese security and intelligence services is the largest in the world” … impressive in its level of detail.
Rana Mitter, The Sunday Times
A French journalist and longtime China watcher, Faligot has an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of China’s spy agencies. In an area where so much of even the distant historical record is strictly off-limits, his extensive research will be useful to academics.
Geoff Dyer, Financial Times
Faligot, an intrepid researcher, has for 40 years constructed an encyclopaedic private archive of Chinese intelligence … The result, Chinese Spies, is an enjoyable treasure trove. Parts of it read like a work of anthropology, an account of the competing spy tribes of communist China, their chieftains and totems. Through this prism … he tells the story of a nation that, while seeking superpower status, is still slave to self-doubt.
Roger Boyes, Weekend Australian
With increasing tensions in the trade war between America and China, concerns about the future of democracy in Hong Kong, and the controversy surrounding Huawei's 5G mobile networks, Chinese Spies is a very timely and important book.’
Andrew Lownie, Wall Street Journal
This book could not be more timely … [it] includes fascinating spy stories … and colourful characters.
Asian Review of Books
Faligot, an intrepid French researcher, has for 40 years constructed an encyclopaedic private archive of Chinese intelligence … Chinese Spies, is an enjoyable treasure trove of conspiracy theories … spicy enough to keep the general reader awake at night.
The Times
Mr Faligot writes evocatively … [Chinese Spies is an] engrossing book.
The Economist
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
This is a detailed overview of a difficult topic and certainly an important source for those wanting to study China’s agencies in more detail. … Faligot and Lehrer have done an important job in producing an English-language edition of the earlier book, which will act as a starting point for historians and anyone interested in China’s “secret state” in future.
Diplomacy & Statecraft
Clive Hamilton, author of Silent Invasion
Roger Faligot fuses an encyclopaedic knowledge of this murky world and its characters with anecdotes that are sometimes comical and often colourful.
Le Point
The expert Roger Faligot offers an enthralling, years-long investigation into the Chinese secret services, delving behind the scenes of Beijing’s global strategy.
Le Parisien
China is not just a country with intelligence services, but rather an intelligence state. In this wide-ranging book, Faligot traces this trajectory from pre-revolutionary Shanghai to the present and reveals a phenomenon for which the West is ill-prepared.
Nigel Inkster, Former Director of Operations and Intelligence, MI6, and Director of Transnational Threats & Political Risk, IISS
A landmark book.’
Paris Match
French journalist Roger Faligot's history of Chinese intelligence from 1921 to the present day is teeming with revelations.
Intellignce Online
Roger Faligot has produced a book stuffed full of scoops on the Chinese secret services.
Métro
The unstoppable rise of the Chinese secret service has seen it grow greater in size than all other intelligence services worldwide ... Roger Faligot’s study traces in full the history of an organisation that has long been successfully diversifying into technological and economic warfare in a new long-term strategy. As Faligot puts it, ‘China’s manpower is unrivalled’, and its vast diaspora network is unique. [Its agents] play a decisive role in conquering new fossil fuel sources; in saturating foreign markets; and in conquering the global cellphone market. Now is the time urgently to read this absolutely fascinating and highly valuable study.
No stone is left unturned in Faligot’s astounding and exhaustive who’s who of Chinese espionage. The revelations prove as scary as the revolutions. Anyone inclined to welcome China’s rediscovered world stature needs to read this book.
John Keay, author of China: A History
Faligot’s detailed and fascinating account of Chinese espionage over the past century argues that “today the community of Chinese security and intelligence services is the largest in the world” … impressive in its level of detail.
Rana Mitter, The Sunday Times
A French journalist and longtime China watcher, Faligot has an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of China’s spy agencies. In an area where so much of even the distant historical record is strictly off-limits, his extensive research will be useful to academics.
Geoff Dyer, Financial Times
Faligot, an intrepid researcher, has for 40 years constructed an encyclopaedic private archive of Chinese intelligence … The result, Chinese Spies, is an enjoyable treasure trove. Parts of it read like a work of anthropology, an account of the competing spy tribes of communist China, their chieftains and totems. Through this prism … he tells the story of a nation that, while seeking superpower status, is still slave to self-doubt.
Roger Boyes, Weekend Australian
With increasing tensions in the trade war between America and China, concerns about the future of democracy in Hong Kong, and the controversy surrounding Huawei's 5G mobile networks, Chinese Spies is a very timely and important book.’
Andrew Lownie, Wall Street Journal
This book could not be more timely … [it] includes fascinating spy stories … and colourful characters.
Asian Review of Books
Faligot, an intrepid French researcher, has for 40 years constructed an encyclopaedic private archive of Chinese intelligence … Chinese Spies, is an enjoyable treasure trove of conspiracy theories … spicy enough to keep the general reader awake at night.
The Times
Mr Faligot writes evocatively … [Chinese Spies is an] engrossing book.
The Economist
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
This is a detailed overview of a difficult topic and certainly an important source for those wanting to study China’s agencies in more detail. … Faligot and Lehrer have done an important job in producing an English-language edition of the earlier book, which will act as a starting point for historians and anyone interested in China’s “secret state” in future.
Diplomacy & Statecraft
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