We have been harmonized : life in China's surveillance state /

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 survei...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strittmatter, Kai (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Custom House, [2020]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.