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We have been harmonized : life in China's surveillance state / Kai Strittmatter.
Item details
- ISBN: 9780063027299
- ISBN: 0063027291
- Physical Description: vi, 360 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Custom House, [2020]
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | "Originally published in Germany in 2018 by Piper Verlag GmbH." "First English publication in Great Britain in 2019 by Old Street Publishing." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-360). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | New China, new world: a preface -- The word: how autocrats hijack our language -- The weapon: how terror and law complement each other -- The pen: how propaganda works -- The net: how the Party learned to love the internet -- The clean sheet: why the people have to forget -- The mandate from heaven: how the Party elected an emperor -- The dream: how Karl Marx and Confucius are being resurrected, hand in hand with the great nation -- The eye: how the Party is updating its rule with artificial intelligence -- The new man: how Big Data and a social credit system are meant to turn people into good subjects -- The subject: how dictatorship warps minds -- The iron house: how a few defiant citizens are refuting the lies -- The gamble when power stands in its own way -- The illusion: how everyone imagines their own China -- The world: how China exerts its influence -- The future: when all roads lead to Beijing. |
| Summary, etc.: | Hailed as a masterwork of reporting and analysis, and based on decades of research within China, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look at how the inter­net and high tech have allowed China to create the largest and most effective surveillance state in history. We Have Been Harmonized is a terrifying portrait of life under unprecedented government surveillance--and a dire warning about what could happen anywhere under the pretense of national security. |
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