TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sun,Wanning
AU  - Sun,Wanning
AU  - Yu,Haiqing
TI  - WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora: Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise
SN  - 9780367724276
PY  - 2022///
PB  - Taylor & Francis, Routledge [Imprint]
KW  - Economics, Finance, Business and Management
KW  - thema
KW  - Industrial arbitration and negotiation
KW  - Industrial relations, occupational health and safety
KW  - Industry and industrial studies
KW  - Interest qualifiers
KW  - Migration, immigration and emigration
KW  - Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples
KW  - Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people
KW  - Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests
KW  - Social and ethical issues
KW  - Society and culture: general
KW  - Society and Social Sciences
KW  - China
KW  - labour market
KW  - Migration
KW  - Russia
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63213
ER  -