Description: Wechat and the Chinese Diaspora : Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise, Hardcover by Sun, Wanning (EDT); Yu, Haiqing (EDT), ISBN 0367724278, ISBN-13 9780367724276, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "WeChat, launched in 2011, has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available, equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese migrants, WeChat has fundamentally changed the ways in which Mandarin-speaking migrants conduct personal messaging, engage in group communication and community business activities, produce and distribute news, and access and share information. This book explores a wide range of issues connected to the ways in which WeChat works and is used, across the world among the newest members of the Chinese diaspora. Arguing that /social media afford a great degree of individual agency, as well as a collective capacity for sustaining an 'imagined community', th shows how WeChat's assemblage of infrastructure and regulatory frameworks, technical capabilities, content and sense of community has led to the construction of a particular kind of diasporic Chinese world, at a time marked both by China's rise, and anxiety about Chinese influence in the West"--
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Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2022
Book Title: Wechat and the Chinese Diaspora
Topic: Sociology / General
Number of Pages: 274 Pages
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science
Author: Haiqing Yu, Wanning Sun
Format: Hardcover
