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96/100Author:
Kai Strittmatter
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Date:
September 1, 2020
A German journalist who specializes in China describes a nation under the thumb of totalitarianism with a sophisticated system of technological surveillance that governs nearly every aspect of life, revealing the fundamental ways in which the West has miscalculated the political direction of post-Maoist China.
What The Reviewers Say
His engrossing, deeply reported and somewhat Orwellian survey of today’s China raises unhappy questions we all have yet to answer.
... the most accessible and best informed account we have had to date of China’s transition from what scholars such as Rebecca MacKinnon used to call 'networked authoritarianism' to what is now a form of networked totalitarianism.
... [a] fine-grained and alarming portrait of modern-day China.
... [a] highly relevant, frequently revelatory book.
