The perfect police state : an undercover odyssey into China's terrifying surveillance dystopia of the future / Geoffrey Cain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cain, Geoffrey, 1986- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uighur (Turkic people)--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Social conditions--21st century.

Uighur (Turkic people).

Muslims--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Social conditions--21st century.

Muslims.

Turkic peoples--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Social conditions--21st century.

Turkic peoples.

Law enforcement--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Social conditions--21st century.

Law enforcement.

Electronic surveillance--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Social conditions--21st century.

Electronic surveillance.

Police--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Social conditions--21st century.

Police.

Social conditions.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--Social conditions--21st century.

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China).

China--Politics and government--2002-.

China.

Politics and government.

China--Social conditions--2000-.

China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 289 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Undercover odyssey into China's terrifying surveillance dystopia of the future

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Public Affairs, 2021.

Summary:

"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."--Amazon.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The New Dominion

2. The Panopticon

3. Sky Net Has Found You

4. China Rises

5. Deep Neural Network

6. Do You Think I Am an Automaton?

7. The Great Rejuvenation

8. China's War on Terror

9. The Three Evils: Terrorism, Extremism, and Separatism

10. People as Data

11. How to Rank Everyone on Their Trustworthiness

12. The All-Seeing Eye

13. Called to a Concentration Camp

14. Mass Internment

15. The Big Brain

16. The Bureaucracy Is Expanding to Meet the Needs of the Expanding Bureaucracy

17. The Prison of the Mind

18. A New Cold War?

19. The Great Rupture

20. You're Not Safe Anywhere.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical resources (pages 237-275) and index.

ISBN:

9781541757035

1541757033

OCLC:

1195458551