Kai Strittmatter: 4 books

Book cover of China

China

An Introduction to the Culture and People

by Kai Strittmatter
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012

It's time we got to know a little more about the Chinese. Did you know they don't eat soup, they drink it? That their surnames come before their first names? That their good sense is to be found not in their heads but in their hearts? Or that white is their colour of mourning? This guide to avoiding...
Book cover of Gebrauchsanweisung für Istanbul
by Kai Strittmatter
Language: German
Release Date: March 9, 2010

Seit vier Jahren lebt Kai Strittmatter am Bosporus, und noch immer schlägt sein Herz schneller, sobald die Fähre sich der Anlegestelle nähert. Möwen im Schlepptau; Matrosen, die an Bord kupferfarbenen Tee servieren; das Minarett der Blauen Moschee, den Galataturm, die Hagia Sophia und den Topkapipalast...
Book cover of Die Neuerfindung der Diktatur

Die Neuerfindung der Diktatur

Wie China den digitalen Überwachungsstaat aufbaut und uns damit herausfordert

by Kai Strittmatter
Language: German
Release Date: October 15, 2018

China ist Boomland, längst einer der Motoren der Weltwirtschaft. Innenpolitisch blieb das Land dabei immer autoritär, außenpolitisch zurückhaltend. Doch unter Xi Jinping, dem mächtigsten Staats- und Parteichef seit Mao, erfindet sich der autoritäre Staat neu, in offener Konkurrenz zum Westen....
Book cover of We have been harmonised

We have been harmonised

Life in China's surveillance state

by Kai Strittmatter
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019

CHINA TODAY. TOMORROW, THE WORLD? In China's shiny new 'Smart Cities', citizens can scarcely cross the road or buy an orange without the Party knowing, and posting a satirical online comment about President Xi's Winnie-the-Pooh-like features can land you in jail. A generation after the tanks rolled...
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