{"product_id":"surveillance-state-inside-chinas-quest-to-launch-a-new-era-of-social-control-9781250256690-b","title":"Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Josh Chin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: St. Martin's Griffin\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: World - Asian\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.","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45028748394647,"sku":"9781250256690","price":420.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781250256690.webp?v=1769202852","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/surveillance-state-inside-chinas-quest-to-launch-a-new-era-of-social-control-9781250256690-b","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}