Josh Chin | Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

Join award-winning journalists Josh Chin for an in-person discussion about his new nonfiction novel, Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control. Chin will be in conversation with veteran political journalist, Bryan Schott.

This in-person event will take place on the bookshop patio.

GET YOUR COPY NOW! Pre-order your signed copy of Surveillance State today, by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. Please specify if you will be attending the event and if you want your book personalized. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of Surveillance State from The King’s English.

About the book:

Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data.

It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America’s “War on Terror,” and now playing out in alarming ways on China’s remote Central Asian frontier. As a minority separatist movement strains against Party control, China’s leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. But across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where technology helps optimize everything from traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response.

Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take readers on a journey through the new world China is building within its borders, and beyond. Telling harrowing stories of the people and families affected by the Party’s ambitions, Surveillance State reveals a future that is already underway—a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.