Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service

2004 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 448
Author(s):  
Richard Belsky ◽  
Frederick Wakeman,
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Nature ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 526 (7574) ◽  
pp. 486-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quirin Schiermeier

Author(s):  
Daniel Brayton

The aesthetic appeal of coasts is due in part to the indeterminacy of the intertidal zone. The imagination finds room to play where land and sea meet. This chapter explores the coastal zone that lies at the heart of a novel considered by many to be the first modern spy thriller, Erskine Childers’s The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service. Childers develops the notion of coastal indeterminacy as a figure for the boundaries, ambitions, and limitations of the modern nation-state. The journey of Childers’s characters through a north Atlantic archipelago that extends from the German coast draws a line of association between Europe and Britain, whose form depends on coastlines, estuaries, and shallows. In following this course, Childers creates a narrative fiction that shifts between charts, borders, and languages.


2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-609
Author(s):  
Albrecht Rothacher
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2004 ◽  
Vol 291 (5) ◽  
pp. 28-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
JR Minkel
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1997 ◽  
Vol 82 (266) ◽  
pp. 223-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wilkinson
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