03059namaa2200445uu 4500001001100000003000600011005001700017006001900034007001500053008004100068020001800109020001800127020001800145020001800163024003100181040001700212041000800229042000700237720002200244245008900266260002700355300002200382336002600404337002600430338003600456506005100492520108800543540006301631546001201694653004401706653028601750653015702036653020402193720002202397720002102419720002102440793001802461856011702479999001702596doab100479oapen20260305123951.0m     o  d        cr|mn|---annan230607s2022    xx |||||o     ||| 0|eng d  a9780367724276  a9780367724306  a9781003154754  a97810031547547 a10.4324/97810031547542doi  aoapencoapen0 aeng  adc1 aSun, Wanning4edt00aWeChat and the Chinese DiasporabDigital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise  bTaylor & Francisc2022  a1 online resource  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aFree-to-readfUnrestricted online access2star  aWeChat (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.  aAll rights reserveduhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights  aEnglish  aMigration; labour market; Russia; China  athema 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  athema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration  athema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, occupational health and safety::KNXN Industrial arbitration and negotiation1 aSun, Wanning4oth1 aYu, Haiqing4edt1 aYu, Haiqing4oth0 aDOAB Library.40uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/10047970zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication  c93084d93084