Minxin Pei, "The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Surveillance and Stability in China
This chapter examines the effects of China's surveillance state on governance in the context of fluctuating economic conditions. It emphasizes the interplay between citizen satisfaction, economic strains, and the strategies of preventive repression employed by the Chinese Communist Party to maintain control and suppress dissent.
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