num_pages: 310
description: Where is the 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 shaping the will of the people through the sophisticatedand often brutalharnessing 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 underwaya new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.
language: English
title: Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
publisher: St. Martin's Press