WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora: Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise

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Wanning Sun Haiqing Yu

WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora

Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise

Wanning Sun, Haiqing Yu

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English

Routledge
29 January 2024

Regional studies; Ethnic studies; Social research & statistics

Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia

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.

Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Edited by: Wanning Sun, Haiqing Yu
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367724306
ISBN 10: 0367724308
Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Wanning Sun is a Professor of Media and Communication at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Haiqing Yu is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.