MEDIUM: China’s ‘Sharp Eyes’
An illustration for an article about surveillance in rural China.
“In 2015 the Chinese government announced that a surveillance program [...] with a particular focus on remote and rural towns. It was called the “Xueliang Project,” or Sharp Eyes, a reference to a quote from communist China’s former revolutionary leader Mao Zedong who once wrote that “the people have sharp eyes” when looking out for neighbors not living up to communist values.” — Dave Gershgorn