The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China

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.

• | Author: Minxin Pei
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 13, 2024
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674257832
• | ISBN-10: 0674257839