{"product_id":"9780063027305","title":"We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eStrittmatter, Kai\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10\/5\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs heard on NPR's Fresh Air, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look, based on decades of research, at how China created the most terrifying surveillance state in history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChina’s new drive for repression is being underpinned by unpre­cedented advances in technology: facial and voice recognition, GPS tracking, supercomputer databases, intercepted cell phone conver­sations, the monitoring of app use, and millions of high-resolution security cameras make it nearly impossible for a Chinese citizen to hide anything from authorities. Commercial transactions, including food deliveries and online purchases, are fed into vast databases, along with everything from biometric information to social media activities to methods of birth control. Cameras (so advanced that they can locate a single person within a stadium crowd of 60,000) scan for faces and walking patterns to track each individual’s move­ment. In some schools, children’s facial expressions are monitored to make sure they are paying attention at the right times. In a new Social Credit System, each citizen is given a score for good behavior; for those who rate poorly, punishments include being banned from flying or taking high-speed trains, exclusion from certain jobs, and preventing their children from attending better schools. And it gets worse: advanced surveillance has led to the imprisonment of more than a million Chinese citizens in western China alone, many held in draconian “reeducation” camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis digital totalitarianism has been made possible not only with the help of Chinese private tech companies, but the complic­ity of Western governments and corporations eager to gain access to China’s huge market. And while governments debate trade wars and tariffs, the Chinese Communist Party and its local partners are aggressively stepping up their efforts to export their surveillance technology abroad—including to the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe Have Been Harmonized is a terrifying portrait of life under unprecedented government surveillance—and a dire warning about what could happen anywhere under the pretense of national security.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Terrifying. … A warning call.\" —The Sunday Times (UK), a “Best Book of the Year so Far”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis essential work of nonfiction explores the architecture of digital totalitarianism:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSocial Credit System:\u003c\/b\u003e How the CCP assigns every citizen a score for good behavior, with punishments ranging from travel bans to blocking their children from attending better schools.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRe-education Camps:\u003c\/b\u003e An unflinching look at the mass imprisonment of over a million citizens, powered by an unprecedented surveillance network.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFacial and Gait Recognition:\u003c\/b\u003e The terrifying capabilities of AI-powered cameras that can identify a single face in a crowd of 60,000 and track individuals by the way they walk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGeopolitical Ambition:\u003c\/b\u003e Why the Chinese Communist Party is aggressively exporting its surveillance technology and authoritarian model to countries around the world, including the United States.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePropaganda and Mind Control:\u003c\/b\u003e The reinvention of propaganda for the digital age, from censoring history to hijacking language, as the Party attempts to craft a compliant “new man.”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167273664767,"sku":"9780063027305","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780063027305_s600x595.jpg?v=1780335076","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780063027305","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}