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The sentinel state : surveillance and the survival of dictatorship in China

Minxin Pei (Author)
Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party's political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the surveillance state. Though renowned for high-tech repression, China's surveillance system is above all a labor-intensive project. Pei delves into the human sources of coercion at the foundation of CCP power

eBook, English, 2024
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2024