THE PERFECT POLICE STATE: By Geoffrey Cain (2021 Hardcover){X4}

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Narrative Type
Nonfiction
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9781541757035
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Publisher
Public Affairs
ISBN-10
1541757033
ISBN-13
9781541757035
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18050405476

Product Key Features

Book Title
Perfect Police State : An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Human Rights, Social History, Privacy & Surveillance (See Also Social Science / Privacy & Surveillance), Asia / China
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Political Science, History
Author
Geoffrey Cain
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in

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LCCN
2021-286680
Dewey Edition
23
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The
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The Perfect Police State should come with a warning: the scope of the Chinese surveillance state is deeper, broader, more insidious and terrifying than you can imagine. Geoffrey Cain deftly details how China has used global businesses, unabashed censorship at home and alliances with authoritarian regimes to create an ever-expanding police state. Cain doesn't lose sight of the people entrapped by the system... The Perfect Police State is a tour-de-force.-- Elizabeth Becker, author of When the War Was Over, "Geoffrey Cain's account of the techno-dystopia taking shape in mainland China blends historical background, business reporting, investigative journalism and political commentary... Cain also fits the story into a broader context: the collusion of capitalism and communism....Western executives doing business with China should read this book and look hard in the mirror."-- Times UK, "Packing a wealth of information into a crisp narrative, this is an impassioned and well-informed exposé."-- Publishers Weekly, "Cain complements [a personal] account with an efficient analysis of the technological advances requited to create China's modern panopticon, including major developments in facial and voice recognition and an AI system able to perform 'predictive policing'... He offers a cogent portrait of the economic imperatives driving the development of these technologies, and of the general corporate reluctance to take much interest in their application."-- Times Literary Supplement, "The future has arrived and it is beyond anything George Orwell could have imagined. In this important new book, Cain details exactly how the Chinese Communist Party deployed 21st century technology--facial recognition, DNA tracking, artificial intelligence--to trap millions of its own citizens in a terrifying dystopia." -- Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, In an expose that is as timely as it is alarming, Geoffrey Cain shows how China is using artificial intelligence and totalitarian repression to turn its westernmost region into a human-rights hellhole. After reading The Perfect Police State, it is impossible to regard the Chinese leadership with anything other than contempt--and fear. -- Blaine Harden, author of Escape from Camp 14, "[T]he real value of Cain's book is its tying together of the different threads of reportage on 'the Situation' in Xinjiang -- as it is euphemistically called on the ground. He is especially good at explaining how this vast, sparsely populated desert region became a laboratory for China's emerging techno-authoritarianism."-- The Spectator
Dewey Decimal
951.06
Synopsis
An in-depth, on-the ground view of how Chinese officials have co-opted technology, infrastructure and the minds of their people to establish the definitive police state. When blocked from facts and truth, and constantly under surveillance, most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend and don't have the information they need to challenge the government. Society quickly breaks down. Friends betray each other, bosses snitch on employees, teachers rat on their students, and children turn on their parents. Everyone must turn to their government for protection. even if the government is not their true protector. This is the Perfect Police State, and China has created one. In The Perfect Police State Geoffrey Cain, an Asia-based reporter, recounts his travels and investigations into the multifaceted and comprehensive surveillance network in the Western Chinese province of Xinjiang. Drawing on first-hand testimony, and one citizen's tumultuous life and escape from Xinjiang, Cain describes the emergence of China's tech surveillance giants, and the implications for our global order, in an age of Covid-19 and police brutality protests. What results is a vivid and haunting investigation into how China established an effective and enduring technological dystopia., A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment--the definitive police state--and the global technology giants that made it possible Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang's Uyghur population has become cursed, oppressed, outcast. Most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend. Social trust has been destroyed systematically. Friends betray each other, bosses snitch on employees, teachers expose their students, and children turn on their parents. Everyone is dependent on a government that nonetheless treats them with suspicion and contempt. Welcome to the Perfect Police State. Using the haunting story of one young woman's attempt to escape the vicious technological dystopia, his own reporting from Xinjiang, and extensive firsthand testimony from exiles, Geoffrey Cain reveals the extraordinary intrusiveness and power of the tech surveillance giants and the chilling implications for all our futures.
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HN733.5

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