Ett nytt slags samhälle är på väg att formas i Kina: en värld utan fattigdom eller nöd där ny teknik låter staten övervaka alla medborgare i realtid och förutspå allt som kommer att hända.

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Många trodde att Kinas ekonomiska tillväxt skulle leda till politisk frihet. Istället har motsatsen skett. Befolkningen får det bättre samtidigt som kontrollen och övervakningen ökar. Finns det en risk att vi också inspireras av den kinesiska modellen? 

Vad är "Smart Cities"? Vad är det som pågår i Xinjiang? Och varför menar vissa att ansiktsigenkänning i realtid måste förbjudas - innan det är för sent?

P3 Dystopia försöker ta reda på vad som händer i Kina.

Producent och programledare: Viktor Hariz
Programledare: Anna Davour

Medverkande

• Nick Holdstock - författare och journalist

• Hanna Sahlberg - Ekots kinakommentator och programledare för podden ”Det perfekta Kina”

• Johan Lagerkvist - professor och Kinakännare vid Stockholms universitet

• Oscar Almén - Kinanalytiker på Totalförsvarets Forskningsinstitut (FOI)

Klipp

• ”Document No. 9” - John Lanchester (LRB, 2019)

• China's Race to the Top: A History of Economic Growth (Foreign Policy Association, 2018)

• The three ‘genetic defects’ of the Western model (CGTN, 2018)

• Mao declares the Peoples' Republic of China (Historical Speeches TV, 2015)

• People's Century, The Great Leap (PBS, 199x)

• Deng Xiaoping’s role in transforming China (SCMP, 2018)

• Archive: Chinese troops fire on protesters in Tiananmen Square (BBC News, 1989)

• President Clinton's Remarks on PNTR with China (2000)

• China: Power and Prosperity (PBS Newshour, 2019)

• ”Det värsta jag såg i lägret var när en ung kvinna våldtogs.” (Studio Ett, 2019)

• Tiananmen Square resonates in China despite 'amnesia' (PBS, 2014)

• Kinesiske ambassadören varnar regeringen (TV4, 2019)

• Chinese TV reporter 'slaps delegate at Tory conference' (The Guardian, 2018)

• China’s large-scale media push: Attempts to influence Swedish media (SVT, 2020)

Artiklar i urval

• Super-Performers - Peter Laslett (LRB, 1984)

• Beijing Envy - Joshua Kurlantzick (LRB, 2007)

• National Trolls - Huang Yuan (LRB, 2017)

• China's Millennials - Sheng Yun (LRB, 2019)

• In Ürümqi - Nick Holdstock (LRB, 2009)

• Taking the Bosses Hostage - Joshua Kurlantzick (LRB, 2009)

• The Headline Prince - Qi Gua (LRB, 2017)

• Sinomania - Perry Anderson (LRB, 2010)

• Prisons in the Mountains - Ben Mauk (LRB, 2019)

• The Suitors - Stephen W. Smith (LRB, 2015)

• Will there be war? - Howard W. French (LRB, 2016)

• Nightwork in Chengdu - Kenneth Pomeranz (LRB, 2016)

• What does China want? - Jonathan Steele (LRB, 2013)

• Chings - Dick Wilson (LRB, 1988)

• Decoding Hu Jintao - John Lanchester (LRB, 2007)

• Getting Rich - Pankaj Mishra (LRB, 2006)

• Spreading Tinder over Dry Scrub - John Gittings (LRB, 2004)

• Chinese Leaps - Jon Elster (LRB, 1991)

• Jon Elster goes to China (LRB, 1988)

• Sinicisation - Slavoj Žižek (LRB, 2015)

• Sino-Americana - Perry Anderson (LRB, 2012)

• Kina ritar om världskartan med nya sidenvägen - Henrik Höjer (FoF, 2020)

• Läckta dokument avslöjar Kinas interneringsläger (SVT, 2019)

• Kina försöker tysta lägervittnen - Randi Mossige-Norheim (SR, 2019)

• Why the 'China Model' Isn't Going Away - Joshua Kurlantzick (The Atlantic, 2013)

• How the West Got China's Social Credit System Wrong - Louise Matsakis (Wired, 2019)

• Sverige allt tystare om mänskliga rättigheter i Kina - Sven Bergman (SVT, 2016)

• 'Orwellian' China silencing dissent at home and abroad, says human rights chief - (The Guardian, 2020)

• The political economy of Document Number Nine - DANIEL W. DREZNER (Foreign Policy, 2013)

• Document 9: A ChinaFile Translation (2013)

• AI POLICY – CHINA (Future of Life Institute, 2019)

• Have you hugged a concrete pillar today? (Bill Gates, 2014)

• Ta ut svängarna, Umeå - Ingvar Näslund (VK, 2010)

• The Cultural Revolution: all you need to know about China's political convulsion - Tom Phillips (The Guardian, 2016)

• China's great famine: 40 years later - Vaclav Smil (BMJ, 1999)

• Great Idea but Don’t Quote Him - Evelyn Iritani (Los Angeles Times, 2004)

• Kina – Mänskliga rättigheter, demokrati och rättsstatens
  principer: situationen per den 31 december 2018 (Regeringskansliet)

• China: End June 1989 Massacre Denial, Free Dissidents (HRW, 2010)

• China Must Answer for Cultural Genocide in Court - Azeem Ibrahim (Foreign Policy, 2019)

• 48 Ways to Get Sent to a Chinese Concentration Camp - Tanner Greer (Foreign Policy, 2018)

• Fullsatt möte i Stockholm om situationen i Xinjiang - Vera Häggblom (Amnesty Press, 2019)

• How China Uses High-Tech Surveillance to Subdue Minorities - Chris Buckley and Paul Mozur (New York Times, 2019)

• Safety Valve Theory - John O. Omachonu (Middle Tennessee State Uni)

• FAO lauds Nelson Mandela as champion of right to food (FAO, 2013)

• The Video Game Company That Banned a Pro–Hong Kong Player Is Handling Its China Controversy About As Well As the NBA Did - Dawnthea Price Lisco (Slate, 2019)

• Apple drops hundreds of VPN apps at Beijing’s request (Financial Times, 2017)

• China’s propaganda campaign in Sweden, 2018–2019 - Björn Jerdén & Viking Bohman (Utrikespolitiska Institutet, 2019)

• China is reportedly tracking ethnic minorities by sticking QR codes with their personal information on their front doors - Alexandra Ma (Business Insider, 2018)

Musik

• Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Dream Reality

• Cliff Martinez - I am in the pink

• Michael McCann - The Mole

• Cliff Martinez - I can't dig her out

• Kid Loco - Theme from the Graffiti Artist

• Helios - Even Today

• Vince Pope - Fake

• The Peoples Liberation Army Orchestra - The Peoples Liberation Army is Loyal to the Party

• Sailing the Seas depends on the Helmsman

• Knutna Nävar - Rorsmannen

• Marcus Bagalà - Boxes: Autumnal Moping

• Jon Brion - You Learn

• The Peoples Liberation Army Orchestra - Without the Communist Party there would be no new China

• Lorn - Unraveled

• Sophie Harris - Driving to Prison

• Jon Brion - Cubes

• Paul Leonard Morgan - Anderson's Theme

• Vince Pope - Coming Down

• Cliff Martinez - Speight Lived Here

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - A receiver for human experiences

• Mac Quayle - 1.0_3-fucksociety.mp3

• Cliff Martinez - Not Leaving this Circus

• Trentemöller - Miss You

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Empty Places (reprise)

• Calexico - Untitled III - Remix by Two Lone Swordsmen

• Hans Zimmer - Afraid of Time

• Vince Pope - Who are you?

• Helios - Seeming

• Martin D. Fowler - 1 Ships VII

• Marcus Bagalà - You don't have to live as a refugee

• Cliff Martinez - Fire it up again

• Cliff Martinez - They are calling my flight