RT Book
T1 Surveillance state: inside China's quest to launch a new era of social control
A1 Chin, Josh
A2 Lin, Liza
LA English
PP New York
PB St. Martin's Press
YR 2022
ED First edition
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1801338426
AB "Josh Chin and Liza Lin's Surveillance State is a groundbreaking work of investigative nonfiction on life in China's burgeoning surveillance state People living in democracies have for decades drawn comfort from the notion that their form of government, for all its flaws, is the best history has managed to produce. Surveillance State documents with startling detail how even as China's Communist Party pays lip service to democracy as a core value of "socialism with Chinese characteristics," it is striving for something new: a political model that shapes the will of the people not through the ballot box but through the sophisticated-and often brutal-harnessing of data. On the country's remote Central Asian frontier, where a separatist movement strains 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. Across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where tech giants help optimize the friction out of daily life. Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take readers on a journey through both places, and several in between, as they document the Party's ambitious push-aided, in some cases, by American technology-to engineer a new society around the power of digital surveillance. China is hardly alone. As faith in democratic principles wavers, advances in surveillance have upended debate about the balance between security and liberty in countries around the globe, including the US. Succeed or fail, the Chinese experiment has implications for people everywhere"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HN733.5
SN 9781250249296
K1 Social Control : China
K1 Electronic Surveillance : China
K1 Artificial Intelligence : Social aspects : China
K1 Internal Security : Technological innovations : China
K1 Informationstechnik
K1 Kommunikationstechnik
K1 Gesellschaft
K1 Kontrolle
K1 Überwachung
K1 Politische Kontrolle
K1 Soziale Kontrolle
K1 Herrschaftssystem
K1 Akteur
K1 Wirtschaft
K1 Kooperation
K1 China : Politics and government : 2002-
K1 China
K1 China : Herrschaftssystem : Digitale Revolution : Überwachung : Politische Kontrolle : Geschichte 2017-2022