ABSTRACT
On January 10, 2008, an interesting article titled "The Cultural Freak Behind the Case of 'Very Pornographic and Very Violent'" was published in the influential Beijing-based newspaper, New Beijing Daily. This article is about the massive assaults on the Internet of a thirteen-year-old girl, who, in an apparently staged "man-in-the-street TV interview", had critiqued the current Internet culture in China for being "very pornographic, very violent". "Internet Violence", a general perception of the Human Flesh Search Engine (RRSS) among its detractors, is also how the RRSS is mainly portrayed in Sun Haoyuan's two suspense novels The Human Flesh Search Engine and Fatal Searches. This chapter focuses on the issue of mediality, not only the mediality of the Internet but also that of other media, such as cinema, digital video (DV), and TV, and the relationship among these media, which figures large in Wang Jing's, Wen Yu's, and Chen Kaige's works.
