Introduction

Liza Lynn is a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. She's co-author with Josh Chin of Surveillance State, Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control. Liza: Chinese leaders have revived totalitarian techniques and blended them with futuristic technologies in an effort not to eradicate a religious minority but to re-engineer it. The book also discusses the CCP's efforts to use pervasive surveillance to promote prosperity.