Hailed as a masterwork of reporting and analysis, and based on decades of research within China, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look at how the inter-net and high tech have allowed China to create the largest and most effective surveillance state in history. We Have Been Harmonized is a terrifying portrait of life under unprecedented government surveillance-and a dire warning about what could happen anywhere under the pretense of national security.

"Originally published in Germany in 2018 by Piper Verlag GmbH." "First English publication in Great Britain in 2019 by Old Street Publishing."

New China, new world: a preface -- The word: how autocrats hijack our language -- The weapon: how terror and law complement each other -- The pen: how propaganda works -- The net: how the Party learned to love the internet -- The clean sheet: why the people have to forget -- The mandate from heaven: how the Party elected an emperor -- The dream: how Karl Marx and Confucius are being resurrected, hand in hand with the great nation -- The eye: how the Party is updating its rule with artificial intelligence -- The new man: how Big Data and a social credit system are meant to turn people into good subjects -- The subject: how dictatorship warps minds -- The iron house: how a few defiant citizens are refuting the lies -- The gamble when power stands in its own way -- The illusion: how everyone imagines their own China -- The world: how China exerts its influence -- The future: when all roads lead to Beijing.