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.