Social Media in Industrial China

Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their u...

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Main Author: Wang, Xinyuan (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: UCL Press 2016
Series:Why We Post
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