Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

by Liza Lin and Josh Chin

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Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state?

Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China's Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated--and often brutal--harnessing of data.

It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America's "War on Terror," and now playing out in alarming ways on China's remote Central Asian frontier. As ethnic minorities in a border region strain against Party control, China's leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. But across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where technology helps optimize everything from traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response.

Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take readers on a journey through the new world China is building within its borders, and beyond. Telling harrowing stories of the people and families affected by the Party's ambitions, Surveillance State reveals a future that is already underway--a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1250249295

ISBN13:9781250249296

Release Date:September 2022

Publisher:St. Martin's Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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