Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
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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.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 09/06/2022
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.43w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781250249296
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/04/2022
Library Journal 07/01/2022 pg. 77
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2022
About the Author
JOSH CHIN is Deputy Bureau Chief in China for the Wall Street Journal. He previously covered politics and tech in China as a reporter of the newspaper for more than a decade. He led an investigative team that won the Gerald Loeb Award for international reporting in 2018 for a series exposing the Chinese government's pioneering embrace of digital surveillance. He was named a National Fellow at New America in 2020 and is a recipient of the Dan Bolles Medal, awarded to investigative journalists who have exhibited courage in standing up against intimidation. Born in Utah, he currently splits time between Seoul and Taiwan.
LIZA LIN works as the journalist covering data use and privacy for the Wall Street Journal from Singapore. Liza was part of the team that won the Loeb in 2018. Prior to the Wall Street Journal, Liza spent nine years at Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Television.