The Sentinel State: Surveillance And Survival Of Dictatorship In China Minxin Pei Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Science General

Countering Recent Hype Around Technology A Leading Expert Argues That The Endurance Of Dictatorship In China Owes Less To Facial Recognition Ai And Gps Tracking Than Human Resources Leninist Surveillance State For Decades Watchers Argued Economic Liberalization Increasing Prosperity Would Bring Democracy World’s Most Populous Country Instead Communist Party’s Grip On Power Has Only Strengthened Why? Answer Minxin Pei Lies Effectiveness Chinese Source Is Not Just Advanced Like Mobile Phone These Are Important But What Matters More China’s Vast Labor-Intensive Infrastructure Domestic Spying Central Government Data Confidential So Turned Local Reports Police Gazettes Leaked Documents Interviews With Exiled Dissidents Provide Detailed Look At Evolution Organization Tactics Following 1989 Tiananmen Uprising Party Invested Immense Coercive Apparatus Operated By Relatively Small Number Secret Officers Capable Mobilizing Millions Citizen Informants Spy Those Suspected Disloyalty Ccp’s Bureaucratic Structure—Whereby Officials Activists Penetrate Every Sector Society Economy From Universities Village Committees Delivery Companies Telecommunication Firms Tibetan Monasteries—Ensures Beijing’s Eyes Ears Truly Everywhere While Today’s System Far Robust Years Past It Modeled After Mass Implemented Under Mao Zedong Emperors Centuries Ago Rigorously Empirical Rich Historical Insight Sentinel Singular Contribution Our Knowledge About Coercion Generally Survival Strategies Authoritarian Regimes Σελίδες: 336 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0527 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm