Surveillance State Audiobook Summary
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.
It 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 a minority separatist movement strains 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.
Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take listeners 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, Surveillance State reveals a future that is already underway–a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
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Surveillance State Audiobook Narrator
Brian Nishii is the narrator of Surveillance State audiobook that was written by Josh Chin
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. Surveillance State is his first book. Born in Utah, he currently splits time between Seoul and Taiwan.
About the Author(s) of Surveillance State
Josh Chin is the author of Surveillance State
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Surveillance State Full Details
Narrator | Brian Nishii |
Length | 11 hours 8 minutes |
Author | Josh Chin |
Category | |
Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
Release date | September 06, 2022 |
ISBN | 9781250821386 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Surveillance State is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Privacy & Surveillance, Social Science
Additional info
The publisher of the Surveillance State is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250821386.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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