"This is a delightfully witty and insightful guide to today's China."—The Guardian China, the world's next superpower, is a complex, compelling, and often contradictory country that can bewilder even
An award winning China correspondent reveals how George Orwell's chilling vision of authoritarianism in 1984 is being outdone by China's rulers.It was not all that long ago that politicians and tech g
NAMED A NOTABLE WORK OF NONFICTION OF 2020 BY THE WASHINGTON POST"A remarkable book. ... The more one reads, the more pressing one conclusion becomes: almost everything we thought we knew about contemporary China is wrong." --The Observer, "Book of the Week"Hailed as a masterwork of reporting and analysis, and based on decades of research within China, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look at how the inter-net and high tech have allowed China to create the largest and most effective surveillance state in history. China's new drive for repression is being underpinned by unpre-cedented advances in technology: facial and voice recognition, GPS tracking, supercomputer databases, intercepted cell phone conver-sations, the monitoring of app use, and millions of high-resolution security cameras make it nearly impossible for a Chinese citizen to hide anything from authorities. Commercial transactions, including food deliveries
An award winning China correspondent reveals how George Orwell’s chilling vision of authoritarianism in 1984 is being outdone by China’s rulers. It was not all that long ago that politicians and tech
