Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Abbreviations xvii
7. Maps xix
8. 1. Images of Dai Li 1
9. 2. Living off the Land 12
10. 3. Touben 24
11. 4. The League of Ten 36
12. 5. “Vigorous Practice”: The Chiang Freemasonry 46
13. 6. The Founding of the Lixingshe 55
14. 7. The Lixingshe and the Blue Shirts 66
15. 8. The Blue Shirts’ “Fascism” 85
16. 9. Ideological Rivalries: The Blue Shirts and the “CC” Clique 98
17. 10. The Blue Shirts in the Provinces 110
18. 11. The Shanghai Station, 1932–35 132
19. 12. Death Squads 157
20. 13. Assassinations 168
21. 14. Police Academies 187
22. 15. Sleeping in Their Coffins 206
23. 16. Skirts and Sashes 221
24. 17. War and the Special Movement Corps 237
25. 18. The Training Camps 250
26. 19. Codes 000 272
27. 20. Dai Li, Milton Miles, and the Foundation of SACO 285
28. 21. SACO Training Camps 294
29. 22. Spying 308
30. 23. Dai Li’s Wartime Smuggling Networks 320
31. 24. Juntong in Wartime Chongqing 330
32. 25. Falling Star 347
33. Afterword: Daemons 367
34. Appendix A. Organization of the General Unit of Special Training 369
35. Appendix B. Organization of Juntong Headquarters, 1943 – 45 371
36. Appendix C. Terms of the Sino-American Special Technical Cooperation Agreement 377
37. Appendix S. Aaco Training Units 379
38. Notes 385
39. Bibliography 539