Download or read book The Sentinel State written by Minxin Pei and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party's political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the surveillance state. Though renowned for high-tech repression, China's surveillance system is above all a labor-intensive project. Pei delves into the human sources of coercion at the foundation of CCP power.