Culture | Technology and social control
In China, surveillance crushes lives—and improves them
Josh Chin and Liza Lin explain how in “Surveillance State”
Surveillance State. By Josh Chin and Liza Lin. St Martin’s Press; 320 pages; $29.99 and £22.99
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Perfect vision”
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