| Description |
1 online resource (338 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Surveillance Series |
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Routledge Studies in Surveillance Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Digital surveillance in China -- Analytical lens and methods -- Epistemic positioning -- Core arguments -- Structure of the book -- Part I Privacy, surveillance, and the social credit systems -- 1 Privacy and surveillance -- Privacy -- Surveillance -- Surveillance on a continuum between care and control -- Perceptions of privacy and surveillance |
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2 Surveillance in China: from Dang'an and Hukou to the social credit systems -- Personal and household registers -- Social governance in the 21st century -- Bottom-up and top-down approaches: grid management and the golden shield -- The social credit systems -- Current status of data centralisation and algorithmic sorting in China -- Part II Anguishing narratives of moral shortcomings -- 3 Rules and monitoring will raise people's 'moral quality' -- The rhetoric of rules and punishment in Chinese society -- Rules and punishment as tools for moral progress |
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The civilising power of technology-enforced rules -- 4 National humiliations and the civilisation dream -- Saving China's national face: the dialectics of pride and shame -- The dreams -- 5 Saving face: privacy as hiding shameful information -- Privacy imaginaries -- What do you hide? Privacy as the saving of face and social respectability -- Who do you hide from? Parents and supervisors, not the government -- Part III Redeeming narratives of digital protection -- 6 The government as protection and order -- China is not an ordinary country: it is the Middle Kingdom |
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Government as parental protection: surveillance as care -- Democracy: 'the government is by the people' -- 7 Technology as a magic bullet -- Convenience in every aspect of life -- Love of technology -- The moral function of technology -- Technology will give China its due place in the world -- The darker side of technology: opacity -- Part IV The mental and emotional weight of surveillance -- 8 Mental tactics to dissociate oneself from surveillance -- Brushing surveillance aside: minimising, ignoring, normalising, and reframing surveillance -- Othering surveillance targets |
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Wearing blinders: 'so far, it has not harmed me' -- Resorting to fatalism: 'It does not matter' -- 9 Misgivings and objections -- Awareness and unpleasant feelings -- Behaviours to limit surveillance exposure -- Marginal but elaborate objections to generalised surveillance -- Generalised surveillance of everybody versus being singled out -- Disconnect between narratives on surveillance and emotional reactions to it -- 10 Self-censorship -- Interviewing at the margin of politics -- Self-censorship in action -- Conclusion |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Implications for Chinese studies: how may the unstable equilibrium shift in the future? |
| Subject |
Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects -- China
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Social control -- China
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Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects.
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Social control.
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China.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000966978 |
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1000966976 |
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