Nov
9
2:00 AM02:00

Seoul: Josh Chin and John Delury on 'American Spies and Chinese Surveillance'

Asia Society Korea will host its first in-person Meet the Author event of 2022 by discussing two new book publications. Josh Chin, Deputy Bureau Chief at The Wall Street Journal, will talk about Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control; and John Delury, Professor at Yonsei University Graduate School will introduce, Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China.

Executive Director Yvonne Kim will moderate the event, focusing on the central theme of 'American Spies and Chinese Surveillance.'

More information here.

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Sep
16
12:00 PM12:00

Virtual: Book Talk w/ Mei Fong at New America

Surveillance State by 2020 National Fellow Josh Chin and Liza Lin 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.

Join the New America Fellows Program for a conversation with Josh Chin, Liza Lin, and 2016 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow Mei Fong about Surveillance State.

Free. RSVP here

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Sep
15
8:00 PM20:00

Salt Lake City: Book Talk at King's English Bookstore

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Join award-winning journalist 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.

Event starts at 6pm local time. More info here.

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Sep
14
8:00 PM20:00

Virtual: Book Talk w/ Jiayang Fan at The Commonwealth Club

An alarming new reality is emerging in China, where a new kind of political control is being waged through the optimization of technology. Journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin describe the journey through the new world China is building within its borders, and beyond. They reveal a future that is already underway―a new society engineered around the power of data and digital surveillance.

Hear more about what could be at stake for the rest of the world.

Buy tickets here.

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Sep
12
4:00 PM16:00

Washington D.C.: Book Talk at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Join the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for an in-person conversation with award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin to discuss their new book, Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control. This event will be moderated by Steven Feldstein.

Both in-person and online. Register here (free).

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Sep
8
6:30 PM18:30

SURVEILLANCE STATE book launch at the Asia Society, moderated by Orville Schell

China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control through collecting and harnessing personal data, from facial recognition to personal genomes to digital footprints, through AI and other forms of surveillance. Award-winning Wall Street Journal journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin explore the contours of this new social control, and how it may yet expand, in their new book Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control. To hear what they found, and what it might mean for the world, join them, in conversation with Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Director of Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, and Jessica Batke, senior editor at ChinaFile.

This event is both in-person and online. Register here.

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