Soldiers, Cops, Bannermen: The Rise & Fall of the First Communist Chinese Police State 1931-1969

Kees Kuiken
ISBN: 978-90-01-51650-5
Wolters-Noordhoff
142 pag. paperback 14 x 23 cm 1993

Soldiers, Cops, Bannermen is the bloody story of the transformation taking place during the nineteen fifties of a Communist military terrorist organization ('soldiers') in a tightly organized police state ('cops') , followed by the no less gruesome story of the bloody decline of the latter in eighteenth-century, Manzu-occupied China, where specially trained Manzu informers kept a close eye on Chinese officials. In the nineteen sixties Mao Zedong planted thousands of these 'moles'in schools, factories and the civil service to prepare for his military coup. When this 'Cultural Revolution' broke out in 1965, these 'bannermen' did indeed hit the streets in droves, waving red banners and red books and they fought against the law-abiding 'çops' with the support of Mao's 'soldiers'. This book shows the differences that have existed (at (any rate until today) between the formal and material basis of the Chinese and the Dutch police systems.