Introduction: Noise, Spectacle, Politics – Carnival in Chinese Cyberspace, David Herold Part I – Creating the Carnival – Netizens and the State 1. China's Internet and the Dynamic Manipulation of Online Discourse, Peter Marolt 2. The Internet Police in China: Regulation, Scope and Myth, Peng Hwa Ang and Xiaoyan Chen 3. China's Censorship 2.0: How companies censor bloggers, Rebecca Mackinnon Part II – Celebrating the Carnival – Fun, Freak-shows, and Masquerades 4. The Chinese Internet as Paradoxical Space, Hongmei Li 5. Egao: Visual Carnival and Iconoclasm in Chinese Cyberspace, Yongmin Zhao 6. Beyond virtual carnival and masquerade: Gaming in Chinese Cyberspace, Weihua Wu PART III – Instrumentalising the Carnival – Rioting as Activism 7. Human Flesh Search Engines: From Carnivalesque Riots to Online Democracy, David Herold and Rodney Chu 8. One voice emerging from the noise: Open Source Computing in China, Matteo Tarantino 9. Chinese internet users and global privacy advocacy, Kenneth Farrall 10. Taking Urban Conservation Online: Chinese Civic Action Groups and the Internet, Nicolai Volland Conclusion – Netizens and Citizens, Cyberspace and Modern China, Peter Marolt and David Herold