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Edition · 2026-03-17 · Softcover

The Sentinel State

MPMinxin Pei
2026
year of publication
336
pages
English (United States)
language
Softcover
cover
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-13
978-06-7430-355-3
EAN
9780674303553
Publication date
2026-03-17
Book
The Sentinel State · 1 edition
The publisher on this edition

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.