{"product_id":"9781250256690","title":"Surveillance State : Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control by Liza Lin","description":"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 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 optimise everything from traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response.   Award-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, Surveillance State reveals a future that is already underway - a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44203332632754,"sku":"9781250256690","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781250256690.jpg?v=1714580747","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781250256690","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}