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Propaganda, media, and nationalism in Mainland China and Hong Kong

main reasons why Chinese immigrants use social media. Part 5, Chinese Social Media Critique, comprises the last two chapters of this book. Chapter 15 investigates how online users in city of Guangzhou use Weibo to negotiate their local identity and to reconfigure power dynamics between perceived local prestige and nationalism. The author proposed a methodological geoidentity approach, which refers to the “reproduction of the sense of self and belonging” (p. 216) to a geographical place in order to examine the power relationships between Guangzhouers and the nation. Chapter 16 concludes this section by analyzing the decline of Weibo and WeChat’s growing popularity from the perspectives of technology, politics, and markets. The study shows that political and market factors have an even greater influence on the future development of social media than technological factors. This book is valuable because it uncovers significant factors that interact with Chinese social media and helps readers understand that Chinese social media platforms are not merely a product of government censorship. In fact, social, cultural, and technological factors have played important roles in the rise of these media sites. Furthermore, this book provides useful insights into the power of Chinese social media to serve individuals and the public. However, while the challenges faced by Chinese social media are well-acknowledged and explained, this book is not without limitations. First, despite of the large number of research methods mentioned in this book, the methodologies are not clearly described in each chapter. Chapters 7, 11, and 14 offer the most help to researchers who are interested in using or replicating the research methods in this book. Second, the chapters offer varying degrees of explicitness in their arguments. Specifically, some authors use previous literature and empirical data to substantiate their discussions and results more than others. Third, it would be helpful if the editors could provide a brief explanation at the beginning of each part to describe how the chapters are connected to each other. Nevertheless, these concerns do not overshadow the overall success of this book.