The work covers the entire history of the work of Soviet military intelligence in China with its successes and failures from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the 30s of the 20th century. A lot of new, hitherto unknown names of Soviet intelligence officers were revealed and the results of their work were analyzed. Description of the activities of the military intelligence is given against the backdrop of complex and contradictory events in the internal political life of China - the “Chinese Troubles.”

The work is provided with comments and notes and is of interest both to intelligence officers and to a wide range of readers. It is essentially the prehistory of another fundamental work - “Your Ramsay”, dedicated to the Soviet intelligence officer Richard Sorge.