People's Pornography

Sex and Surveillance on the Chinese Internet

By (author) Katrien Jacobs

Publication date:

13 February 2012

Publisher

Intellect Books

Dimensions:

229x178mm
7x9"

ISBN-13: 9781841504933

"People's Pornography" offers an unprecedented investigation of pornography and activist media cultures on the Chinese internet. The book will give a wide-ranging overview of Chinese porn cultures and political controversies, which are gaining popularity amongst Chinese web users yet are different from their Western counterparts. By looking at new tendencies in pornography, erotic subcultures, and digital citizenship, the book will offer a timely contribution to studies of Chinese media, internet culture, sexuality and surveillance society. The book benefits from many black and white images as examples.

Chapter 1:
The Cyber Yellow Disaster: From the Everyday Gaze to Nation-State Espionage

Chapter 2:
The Pride and Pettiness of Sex Bloggers

Chapter 3:
Gender Variations on the Aching Sex Scene: Young Adult Fe/Male Responses to Explicit Media and Internet Culture

Chapter 4:
Lizzy Kinsey and the Adult FriendFinders: An Ethnographic Case Study about Internet Sex and Pornographic Self-Display in Hong Kong

Chapter 5:
It Runs in the Rotten Family: Queer Love Amongst Animation Fans and Costume Players

'Jacobs doesn’t underestimate the intelligence of her subjects or her audience, and while her book strikes a positive note both at the beginning and at the end, the numerous examples throughout show us that sexual expression in China is in a constant state of conflict between individual and collective desires and the ever-present and increasingly noisy demands of capital'.