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Chinese Communist Espionage

An Intelligence Primer

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Chinese Communist Espionage

By: Peter Mattis, Matthew Brazil
Narrated by: David de Vries
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This is the first work of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence operations. It profiles the leaders, top spies, and important operations in the history of China's espionage organs and links to an extensive online glossary of Chinese language intelligence and security terms. Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil present an unprecedented look into the murky world of Chinese espionage both past and present, enabling a better understanding of how pervasive and important its influence is, both in China and abroad.

©2019 Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil (P)2020 Tantor Intelligence & Espionage Politics & Government Freedom & Security China Asia World Chinese Intelligence
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The big takeaway is the extent of espionage engaged by China against the entire world!

INTERESTING

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it's fine to read parts out of sequence and jump back and forth. A good companion to any history of communist china or biography of CCP figures.

Factual useful digestible

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Would recommend the economic chapter and the last summary chapter. Everything else reads more like encyclopedia entries.

More like an encyclopedia than anything

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One would think that if you're writing a book targeting people working in or with China, you would find a narrator who understands at least the basics of Chinese Pinyin pronunciation. They even mention that they have included all the Chinese terms in their Chinese AND Pinyin forms in the book as well as having a downloadable glossary. The glossary is not full Pinyin - all tone markers are missing and the faux Chinese accent used to render Chinese names, place names, organisations and key events is cringeworthy at the least and may even cross the line of offensive. Never before have I heard a foreign language mangled with such certainty.

Whoever did the voice casting for this should probably reconsider some of their life choices and consider shifting careers. Perhaps American hubris thinking that near enough is good enough when it comes to 'foreign stuff'.

Unrelenting Mangled Chinese Listening Unbearable

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lots of facts and figures but lacking the narrative. Very useful as a reference but better in text form.

Best as a hard copy

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