03059namaa2200445uu 4500 doab100479 oapen 20260305123951.0 m o d cr|mn|---annan 230607s2022 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d 9780367724276 9780367724306 9781003154754 9781003154754 10.4324/9781003154754 doi oapen oapen eng dc Sun, Wanning edt WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise Taylor & Francis 2022 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star WeChat (the international version of Weixin), launched in 2012, 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 digital/social media afford a great degree of individual agency, as well as a collective capacity for sustaining an 'imagined community', the book 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. All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Migration; labour market; Russia; China thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXN Industrial arbitration and negotiation Sun, Wanning oth Yu, Haiqing edt Yu, Haiqing oth DOAB Library. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/100479 0 Free-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication 93084 93084