Books by Roger Faligot, Natasha Lehrer

4. Roger Faligot, Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi JinPing .  A sobering account of how much spying — indeed spying on a mass level — has been central to Chinese history since the advent of communism.  I found some parts of this book too detailed for me to read the entire thing, but arguably that ought to scare you all the more.  Note that the narrative essentially ends around 2008.