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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UCL Press
2016
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| Series: | Why We Post
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |
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