The Perfect Police State, Geoffrey Cain
The Perfect Police State, Geoffrey Cain
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The Perfect Police State
An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future

Author: Geoffrey Cain

Narrator: Feodor Chin

Unabridged: 8 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 06/29/2021

Synopsis

A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment—the definitive police state—and the global technology giants that made it possible
 
Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang’s Uyghur population has become cursed, oppressed, outcast. Most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend. Social trust has been destroyed systematically. Friends betray each other, bosses snitch on employees, teachers expose their students, and children turn on their parents. Everyone is dependent on a government that nonetheless treats them with suspicion and contempt. Welcome to the Perfect Police State.
 
Using the haunting story of one young woman’s attempt to escape the vicious technological dystopia, his own reporting from Xinjiang, and extensive firsthand testimony from exiles, Geoffrey Cain reveals the extraordinary intrusiveness and power of the tech surveillance giants and the chilling implications for all our futures.  

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on June 29, 2021

Xi claims top spot, surpassing Nazis and Orwell For the Uyghurs of China, just being a Uyghur is a crime. They are targeted, monitored, restricted, interned, brainwashed and destroyed. In Geoffrey Cain’s stomach-churning book The Perfect Police State, the tone is set right up front where readers lear......more

Goodreads review by Wick on July 15, 2021

George Orwell eat your heart out. The Orwellian nightmare is finally fulfilled in the region of Xinjiang in China. Don’t get me wrong, there have been a lot of totalitarian surveillance states that have had a good crack at it (including the US), but the CCP has created the perfect blend of a ruthless......more

Goodreads review by Barry on July 30, 2021

5 stars. Excellent. Cain's a great writer. Highly recommended......more

Goodreads review by Venky on July 09, 2021

In the year 1956, bestselling American science fiction author, Philip K. Dick penned a disturbing dystopia titled “The Minority Report.” The plot has at its nub a perverse system having the capability to ‘predict’ an ensuing crime. Three mutants or ‘precogs’ are plugged into a gigantic machine. Havi......more

Goodreads review by Rick on March 14, 2022

Searing condemnation of the Chinese surveillance tactics against the Uighurs. A fascinating view into what implementation of a police AI system looks like. What a total surveillance state looks like. And while this is an aggressive implementation of such a system I don’t think it’s that far off of w......more

Quotes

“The future has arrived and it is beyond anything George Orwell could have imagined. In this important new book, Cain details exactly how the Chinese Communist Party deployed 21st century technology—facial recognition, DNA tracking, artificial intelligence—to trap millions of its own citizens in a terrifying dystopia.”
—Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

The Perfect Police State should come with a warning:  the scope of the Chinese surveillance state is deeper, broader, more insidious and terrifying than you can imagine. Geoffrey Cain deftly details how China has used global businesses, unabashed censorship at home and alliances with authoritarian regimes to create an ever-expanding police state. Cain doesn’t lose sight of the people entrapped by the system… The Perfect Police State is a tour-de-force.—Elizabeth Becker, author of When the War Was Over

In an expose that is as timely as it is alarming, Geoffrey Cain shows how China is using artificial intelligence and totalitarian repression to turn its westernmost region into a human-rights hellhole. After reading The Perfect Police State, it is impossible to regard the Chinese leadership with anything other than contempt—and fear.
—Blaine Harden, author of Escape from Camp 14

“Packing a wealth of information into a crisp narrative, this is an impassioned and well-informed exposé.”—Publishers Weekly

“A scarifying dive into China’s pernicious spy state…A prescient, alarming work on the overreach of technology and state power.”—Kirkus Reviews

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