Surveillance State: Inside Chinas Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

Now In Paperback-A Captivating Investigation Of The Blurry Line Between Digital Utopia And Digital Police State. Surveillance State Tells The Gripping, Startling, And Detailed Story Of How ChinaS 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 AmericaS War On Terror, And Now Playing Out In Alarming Ways On ChinaS Remote Central Asian Frontier. As Ethnic Minorities In A Border Region Strain Against Party Control, ChinaS 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 PartyS Ambitions, Surveillance State Reveals A Future That Is Already Underway-A New Society Engineered Around The Power Of Digital Surveillance.