Page 460 . Volume 10, Issue 1 May 2013 Review Katrien Jacobs, People’s PornographLJ: Sedž and Surveillance on the Chinese Internet, Bristol, Chicago: Intellect, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84150-493-3. 203 pp. The World Wide Web and pornography have much common but perhaps the most obvious is their status as symbolic oxymoron - alternatively condemned and praised by different cultural groups, and according to diverse political agendas. While some hail the Internet as a powerful means of democratization and self-expression, others fear it could easily become just an efficient and pervasive tool for controlling the masses. Pornography is subject to similar ambivalence, being considered an empowering/liberating force or an objectifying/degrading agent of ďoth ǁoŵeŶ aŶd ŵeŶ. This iŶŶeƌ diĐhotoŵLJ characterizing both porn and netizenship seems to be taken to an extreme level in the ĐoŶtedžt of ChiŶese soĐietLJ, aŶd is the suďjeĐt of KatƌieŶ JaĐoďs latest ďook, People’s Pornography: Sex and Surveillance on the Chinese Internet. Through this innovative research project, Jacobs (an Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong) continues the in-depth analysis of Internet sexual cultures initiated in her earlier book, Netporn: DIY Web Culture and Sexual Politics (2007) which examined the aesthetics and politics of DIY pornographies. This time she focuses attention on the circumscribed and relatively unexplored geo-political context of Hong Kong and Mainland China. In People’s Pornography, Jacobs investigates various aspects of the continuing processes of constructing sexual identities (as well as general redefinitions of sex, sexuality and personal freedom) in China at the beginning of the 21 st century. To do so, she primarily focuses on recent developments in the production and consumption of DIY pornography in China rather than the circulation of iŵpoƌted iŵages aŶd ŵodels. IŶ additioŶ, she desĐƌiďes the ŵost ĐoŵŵoŶ suƌǀiǀal pƌaĐtiĐes eŶaďliŶg ChiŶese ŶetizeŶs to aĐĐess ;aŶd exchange) censored materials and to express independent thinking, alongside consideration of the populaƌ iŶflueŶĐe of dissideŶt aƌtists like Ai Wei Wei oƌ ŶoŶĐoŶfoƌŵist ĐeleďƌitLJ ďloggeƌs suĐh as HaŶ HaŶ. IŶsight iŶto aĐtual ;sedžualͿ ďehaǀiouƌs aŶd ;sexual) identity building processes is offered through the analysis of two distinct case studies: the race and gender dynamics operating among Hong Kong members of the sex dating website Adult Friend Finder, and the system of collective and individual identity strategies within Chinese ĐosplaLJeƌs ĐoŵŵuŶities.