{"product_id":"9781250256690","title":"Surveillance State","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhere is the line between digital utopia and digital police state?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      \u003ci\u003eSurveillance State\u003c\/i\u003e       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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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 optimize everythingfrom traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-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,      \u003ci\u003eSurveillance State\u003c\/i\u003e       reveals a future that is already underway - a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Josh Chin, Liza Lin","offers":[{"title":"St. Martin's Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-04-02","offer_id":44652716425471,"sku":"9781250256690","price":27.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3ceff616-f46e-43bf-84b0-9c69a80eb09c.jpg?v=1704314300","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781250256690","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}