Kai Strittmatter

"Terrifying. ... A warning call. --The Sunday Times (UK), a "Best Book of the Year so Far" "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 and online purchases, are fed into vast databases, along with everything from biometric information to social media activities to methods of birth control. Cameras (so advanced that they can locate a single person within a stadium crowd of 60,000) scan for faces and walking patterns to track each individual's move-ment. In some schools, children's facial expressions are monitored to make sure they are paying attention at the right times. In a new Social Credit System, each citizen is given a score for good behavior; for those who rate poorly, punishments include being banned from flying or taking high-speed trains, exclusion from certain jobs, and preventing their children from attending better schools. And it gets worse: advanced surveillance has led to the imprisonment of more than a million Chinese citizens in western China alone, many held in draconian "reeducation" camps. This digital totalitarianism has been made possible not only with the help of Chinese private tech companies, but the complic-ity of Western governments and corporations eager to gain access to China's huge market. And while governments debate trade wars and tariffs, the Chinese Communist Party and its local partners are aggressively stepping up their efforts to export their surveillance technology abroad--including to the United States. We Have Been Harmonized is a terrifying portrait of life under unprecedented government surveillance--and a dire warning about what could happen anywhere under the pretense of national security. --John Naughton, The Observer, "Book of the Week"

Life in China's Surveillance State

We Have Been Harmonized

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Chiny 5.0

Wie China den digitalen Überwachungsstaat aufbaut und uns damit herausfordert

Die Neuerfindung der Diktatur

Chinas neue Macht

Unterhaltsame und kenntnisreiche Plaudereien über den chinesischen Alltag.

Gebrauchsanweisung für China

As China's standing on the world stage continues to grow and as it assumes more influence, how much do we really know about China and the Chinese? This humorous, insightful, and informative study of life in China explains the rituals and etiquette of the people themselves.

An A-Z

China

China ist wieder Weltmacht. Ohne China geht nichts, ob wir es wollen oder nicht. Aber China ist vielen immer noch fremd. Seine wirtschaftliche Macht ist unbestritten, seine politische Agenda oft undurchsichtig. Unter Xi Jinping, dem mächtigsten Staats- und Parteichef seit Mao, erfindet sich der autoritäre Staat neu, in offener Konkurrenz zum Westen, und baut mit Big Data und künstlicher Intelligenz den perfekten Überwachungsstaat. Chinas neue geostrategische Ambitionen, aber auch seine Wirtschaftspraktiken führen zu Spannungen; seine schroffen Reaktionen zu Reizthemen wie Taiwan, Hongkong oder Xinjiang lösen regelmäßig Eklats aus. Dieses Buch gibt Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen zu Chinas Politik, Geschichte, Kultur und Wirtschaft.

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Stefan Tobler

A humorous introduction to the cultural oddities and quirks of Chinese life from a Western perspective.

An Introduction to the Culture and People

It's time we got to know a little more about the Chinese. Did you know they don't eat soup, they drink it? That their surnames come before their first names? That their good sense is to be found not in their heads but in their hearts? Or that white is their colour of mourning? This guide to avoiding the numerous pitfalls of Chinese etiquette is both amusing and informative. The writer and journalist Kai Strittmatter lived and worked in China for ten years. This amusing, affectionate and perceptive book provides a fascinating guide to this lively, sociable and friendly people and their complex and often contradictory society. As the author says: "Be prepared for everything when you come to Beijing. It really is unbelievable what can happen here." The new material in this edition takes a critical look at the challenges posed by this, the next global superpower.

Kai Strittmatter

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