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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New York :
Custom House,
[2020]
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| 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.