"Constructing a Culture of Honesty and Integrity" Alexander Trauth-Goik The Evolution of China's Han-Centric Surveillance System S urveillance has become the dominant organizing force of the modern era. A once isolated and limited practice, surveillance now pervades every facet of urban existence in practically all corners of the globe. Contemporary surveillance of the type facilitated by information and communication technologies embodies the logical outcome of a positivist rationality that seeks to reduce all life phenomena to calculation and quantifiable management. The quest for security, risk management, administrative efficiency, and consumer convenience continues to motivate the global ISTOCK/RWEISSWALD Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MTS.2019.2948444 Date of current version: 2 December 2019 Surveillance camera, Rawak Stupa archeological site, Xinjiang, China. DECEMBER 2019 ∕ IEEE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY MAGAZINE 0278-0097/19©2019IEEE 75