![]() ![]() The author lives in Copenhagen where he works as a foreign correspondent for Süddeutsche Zeitung for the Scandinavian countries. MERICS is the largest European research institute focusing on contemporary Chinese studies. He is now a member of the advisory board at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin. He was based in Beijing, China from 1997 to 2005 and again from 2012 to 2018. He then worked as a journalist for Germany’s national newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung for more than a decade. ![]() Kai Strittmatter, the author of We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State, studied Sinology and journalism in Munich Xian, China and Taipei, Taiwan starting in the 1980s. ![]() These random observations have me wondering what is being done with all this surveillance footage? When I came across a new book, I thought it might provide some answers. Recently in my housing complex I watched workers pull roll after roll of cable through underground conduits to link up multiple video cameras installed at every entrance. At one of the nearby subway stops I counted 14 cameras on one platform. Walking around my neighborhood in China over the past year, I noticed a growing abundance of security cameras. ![]()
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