HarperCollins announces the release of CHINESE SPIES From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping by Roger Faligot
NEW DELHI March 30 2022 PRNewswire — A book that gives a credible detailed and accessible account of Chinese intelligence agencies about which next to nothing is known Non-fiction Paperback INR 699 Releasing on 1st April 2022 Pre-order here httpsamznto3JO4xQH There is enough mystery intrigue and history in this book to make it one of the most fascinating narratives of Chinese history from the days of Mao to the present administration and the contribution of intelligence services to Chinas growth and national ambition during the period-Vikram Sood Former Chief Research and Analysis Wing RAW ABOUT THE BOOK 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 Using previously unseen papers and interviewing countless insiders Roger Faligots 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 have been everywhere from Stalins purges to 911 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 In the twenty-first century the Chinese intelligence services an umbrella term that includes several organizations rival the largest in the world the American CIA the Israeli Mossad the Indian RAW the French DGSE Britains MI6 and of course the other intelligence services in the region such as the Taiwanese MJIB and the Japanese Naicho This fascinating narrative exposes the sprawling tentacles of the worlds largest intelligence service from the very birth of communist China to Xi Jinpings absolute rule today Author Roger Faligot says Over the last forty years as an investigative reporter I have researched information on China and her intelligence services Travelling extensively in Asia and elsewhere I have been able to obtain numerous testimonies and confidential documents showing how after the fall of the USSR Chinese spies have been broadening their scope from a regional to a worldwide focus Under Xi Jinping the Ministry of State Security Guoanbu and Peoples Liberation Army secret services have become as active as the CIA the MI6 the RAW or the Russian GRU and SVR I am glad to know that a wide readership in India will get a chance to read these facts in my book Chinese Spies The more so because from the point of view of the Beijing spy chiefs India is one of their most important targets Swati Chopra Executive Editor HarperCollins India says At a time when several books have been written about China and its relationship with India virtually nothing is known about Chinese espionage agencies Roger Faligots monumental book Chinese Spies amply fills this lacuna with a comprehensive examination of a hundred years of Chinese espionage covering all major events from the founding of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949 to the Covid pandemic of 2020 No other book comes close to the range and depth of Faligots brilliant investigation into the shadow world of Chinese spies and we at HarperCollins are delighted to bring it to Indian readers ABOUT THE AUTHOR Roger Faligot is an investigative journalist and author of many books on European and Asian intelligence including The Chinese Mafiain Europe and La Piscine the first history of Frances secret services He has been a correspondent for The European and Far East correspondent for Intelligence Online 19932018 For reviews interviews excerpts and more information please contact Vandana Rathore at vandanarathoreharpercollins-india com About HarperCollins India HarperCollins India publishes some of the finest writers from the Indian Subcontinent and around the world publishing approximately 200 new books every year with a print and digital catalogue of more than 2000 titles across 10 imprints Its authors have won almost every major literary award including the Man Booker Prize JCB Prize DSC Prize New India Foundation Award Atta Galatta Prize Shakti Bhatt Prize Gourmand Cookbook Award Publishing Next Award Tata Literature Live Award Gaja Capital Business Book Prize BICW Award Sushila Devi Award Sahitya Akademi Award and Crossword Book Award HarperCollins India also represents some of the finest publishers in the world including Harvard University Press Gallup Press Oneworld Bonnier Zaffre Usborne Dover and Lonely Planet HarperCollins India is now the recipient of five Publisher of the Year Awards In 2021 and 2015 at the Publishing Next Industry Awards and in 2021 2018 and 2016 at Tata Literature Live HarperCollins India is a subsidiary of HarperCollins Publishers Logo httpsmmaprnewswirecommedia1249409HarperCollinsPublishersIndiaLogojpg PWR PWR
NEW DELHI March 30 2022 PRNewswire — A book that gives a credible detailed and accessible account of Chinese intelligence agencies about which next to nothing is known Non-fiction Paperback INR 699 Releasing on 1st April 2022 Pre-order here httpsamznto3JO4xQH There is enough mystery intrigue and history in this book to make it one of the most fascinating narratives of Chinese history from the days of Mao to the present administration and the contribution of intelligence services to Chinas growth and national ambition during the period-Vikram Sood Former Chief Research and Analysis Wing RAW ABOUT THE BOOK 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 Using previously unseen papers and interviewing countless insiders Roger Faligots 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 have been everywhere from Stalins purges to 911 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 In the twenty-first century the Chinese intelligence services an umbrella term that includes several organizations rival the largest in the world the American CIA the Israeli Mossad the Indian RAW the French DGSE Britains MI6 and of course the other intelligence services in the region such as the Taiwanese MJIB and the Japanese Naicho This fascinating narrative exposes the sprawling tentacles of the worlds largest intelligence service from the very birth of communist China to Xi Jinpings absolute rule today Author Roger Faligot says Over the last forty years as an investigative reporter I have researched information on China and her intelligence services Travelling extensively in Asia and elsewhere I have been able to obtain numerous testimonies and confidential documents showing how after the fall of the USSR Chinese spies have been broadening their scope from a regional to a worldwide focus Under Xi Jinping the Ministry of State Security Guoanbu and Peoples Liberation Army secret services have become as active as the CIA the MI6 the RAW or the Russian GRU and SVR I am glad to know that a wide readership in India will get a chance to read these facts in my book Chinese Spies The more so because from the point of view of the Beijing spy chiefs India is one of their most important targets Swati Chopra Executive Editor HarperCollins India says At a time when several books have been written about China and its relationship with India virtually nothing is known about Chinese espionage agencies Roger Faligots monumental book Chinese Spies amply fills this lacuna with a comprehensive examination of a hundred years of Chinese espionage covering all major events from the founding of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949 to the Covid pandemic of 2020 No other book comes close to the range and depth of Faligots brilliant investigation into the shadow world of Chinese spies and we at HarperCollins are delighted to bring it to Indian readers ABOUT THE AUTHOR Roger Faligot is an investigative journalist and author of many books on European and Asian intelligence including The Chinese Mafiain Europe and La Piscine the first history of Frances secret services He has been a correspondent for The European and Far East correspondent for Intelligence Online 19932018 For reviews interviews excerpts and more information please contact Vandana Rathore at vandanarathoreharpercollins-india com About HarperCollins India HarperCollins India publishes some of the finest writers from the Indian Subcontinent and around the world publishing approximately 200 new books every year with a print and digital catalogue of more than 2000 titles across 10 imprints Its authors have won almost every major literary award including the Man Booker Prize JCB Prize DSC Prize New India Foundation Award Atta Galatta Prize Shakti Bhatt Prize Gourmand Cookbook Award Publishing Next Award Tata Literature Live Award Gaja Capital Business Book Prize BICW Award Sushila Devi Award Sahitya Akademi Award and Crossword Book Award HarperCollins India also represents some of the finest publishers in the world including Harvard University Press Gallup Press Oneworld Bonnier Zaffre Usborne Dover and Lonely Planet HarperCollins India is now the recipient of five Publisher of the Year Awards In 2021 and 2015 at the Publishing Next Industry Awards and in 2021 2018 and 2016 at Tata Literature Live HarperCollins India is a subsidiary of HarperCollins Publishers Logo httpsmmaprnewswirecommedia1249409HarperCollinsPublishersIndiaLogojpg PWR PWR
