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Surveillance State

Surveillance State

Chin, Josh

Paperback

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 1250256690
ISBN13: 9781250256690
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Apr 2 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

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.

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