The Sentinel State

2024-02-13 Political Science

Author : Minxin Pei
Release : 2024-02-13
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 839/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Sentinel State by : Minxin Pei

Download or read book The Sentinel State written by Minxin Pei. This book was released on 2024-02-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

From Reform to Revolution

1994 Business & Economics

Author : Minxin Pei
Release : 1994
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 630/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book From Reform to Revolution written by Minxin Pei. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author concludes with provocative statements about regime transition from communism. He rejects the idealistic notion that democratization can, by itself, remove the structural obstacles to economic transformation, and he sees high economic and political costs as unavoidable in transition from communism along either the Soviet or the Chinese path.

Surveillance State

2022-09-06 Political Science

Author : Josh Chin
Release : 2022-09-06
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 309/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Surveillance State written by Josh Chin. This book was released on 2022-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state? Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data. It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America’s “War on Terror,” and now playing out in alarming ways on China’s remote Central Asian frontier. As ethnic minorities in a border region strain against Party control, China’s leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. But across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where technology helps optimize everything from traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response. Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take readers on a journey through the new world China is building within its borders, and beyond. Telling harrowing stories of the people and families affected by the Party’s ambitions, Surveillance State reveals a future that is already underway—a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.

Sentinel

2018-10-22 History

Author : Francesca Lidia Viano
Release : 2018-10-22
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 60X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sentinel written by Francesca Lidia Viano. This book was released on 2018-10-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the improbable campaign that created America’s most enduring monument. The Statue of Liberty is an icon of freedom, a monument to America’s multiethnic democracy, and a memorial to Franco-American friendship. That much we know. But the lofty ideals we associate with the statue today can obscure its turbulent origins and layers of meaning. Francesca Lidia Viano reveals that history in the fullest account yet of the people and ideas that brought the lady of the harbor to life. Our protagonists are the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and his collaborator, the politician and intellectual Édouard de Laboulaye. Viano draws on an unprecedented range of sources to follow the pair as they chase their artistic and political ambitions across a global stage dominated by imperial rivalry and ideological ferment. The tale stretches from the cobblestones of northeastern France, through the hallways of international exhibitions in London and Paris, to the copper mines of Norway and Chile, the battlegrounds of the Franco-Prussian War, the deserts of Egypt, and the streets of New York. It features profound technical challenges, hot air balloon rides, secret “magnetic” séances, and grand visions of a Franco-American partnership in the coming world order. The irrepressible collaborators bring to their project the high ideals of liberalism and republicanism, but also crude calculations of national advantage and eccentric notions adopted from orientalism, freemasonry, and Saint-Simonianism. As entertaining as it is illuminating, Sentinel gives new flesh and spirit to a landmark we all recognize but only dimly understand.

The Sentinel

2003-12 Science fiction

Author : Arthur Charles Clarke
Release : 2003-12
Genre : Science fiction
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Book Rating : 752/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Sentinel written by Arthur Charles Clarke. This book was released on 2003-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a master of science fiction comes this brilliant collection of short stories featuring "The Sentinel," the story that inspired his classic "2001: A Space Odyssey." Includes an Introduction and notes by Clarke and illustrations by visionary architect Lebbeus Woods. Original.

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