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Michael Schoenhals is Professor Emeritus of Chinese at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. He is author of Doing Things with Words in Chinese Politics (1992), Mao's Last Revolution (with Roderick MacFarquhar) (2006), and Spying for the People: Mao's Secret Agents, 1949–1967 (2013).
'This is a unique collection of first-hand documents from the clandestine inner workings of the Chinese secret police and their network of informers. Skilfully introduced, Michael Schoenhals takes us into the abysses and banalities of communist persecution under Mao. The underbelly of Stalinist civilisation – Chinese style. Anyone interested in secret police and their informers will find a wealth of comparative material in this collection.' Jens Gieseke, Leibniz-Centre for Contemporary History 'Eyes and Ears draws on discarded documents to describe how the state recruited people to spy on their neighbors in Cold War China. Everyday surveillance is by turns humdrum, tedious, chilling, and occasionally hilarious. Schoenhals illuminates China's particularities without ever letting us forget that these practices are common to all modern states.' Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz 'This volume makes an indispensable contribution to a much neglected area of study. No serious student of Cold War China can afford to overlook it.' R. Gerald Hughes, Aberystwyth University
