{"product_id":"surveillance-state-inside-chinas-quest-to-launch-a-new-era-of-social-control-paperback","title":"Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJosh Chin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLiza Lin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhere is the line between digital utopia and digital police state?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurveillance State\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is a story born in Silicon Valley and America's \"War on Terror,\" and now playing out in alarming ways on China's remote Central Asian frontier. As ethnic minorities in a border region strain 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. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-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 Party's ambitions, \u003ci\u003eSurveillance State\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a future that is already underway--a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOSH CHIN is Deputy Bureau Chief in China for the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLIZA LIN works as the journalist covering data use and privacy for the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e from Singapore. Liza was part of the team that won the Loeb in 2018. Prior to the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Liza spent nine years at \u003ci\u003eBloomberg News\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBloomberg Television\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763892551968,"sku":"9781250256690","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2898d9c5c2a9e34764608d8c7c57c8ce.webp?v=1780241497","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/surveillance-state-inside-chinas-quest-to-launch-a-new-era-of-social-control-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}