"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.

About the Author

Katrien Jacobs is associate professor in cultural studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the author of Netporn: DIY Web Culture and Sexual Politics.

Reviews

'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'.

-- Subashini Navaratnam, Pop Matters

'Jacobs' book has a lot more interesting things to tell though. As she says "It shows that despite the total ban on pornography, Chinese people have developed an impressive porn industry and progressive sex cultures"'.

-- Maria Manoli, gb times

'A comprehensive documentation of the various forms of pornography and creative resistance to state censorship and social control in China'.

-- Lucetta Yip Lo Kam, China Information

'The seriousness and conviction Jacobs demonstrates in this work also deserves not only praise but a willingness to critique it'.

-- Earl Jackson, The China Review



Book Information
ISBN 9781841504933
Author Katrien Jacobs
Format Paperback
Page Count 203
Imprint Intellect Books
Publisher Intellect Books
Weight(grams) 345g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 11mm