> In fact they have brought this to such perfection that if a stranger commits any offence that obliges him to flee from China, they send his portrait far and w

> In fact they have brought this to such perfection that if a stranger commits any offence that obliges him to flee from China, they send his portrait far and wide. A search is then made for him and where so ever the person bearing a resemblance to that portrait is found is arrested 30." China. A surveillance state since the 1300s. /jk of course