This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media, internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the Anglophone paradigm.

Foreword Michael Keane 1. Chinese social media todayMike Kent, Katie Ellis and Jian XuPart I: Chinese Social Media and the Public2. Micro-philanthropy and new grassroots associations: Social media and the rights discourse in China.Haiqing Yu3.Social media and legitimization tactics of grassroots NGOs in China: A case study of Love Save PneumoconiosisDianlin Huang4. The "Making" of online celebrity – A case Study of Chinese rural same-sex male couple Anwei and YebinTianyang Zhou and Lianrui Jia5. Populist sentiments and digital ethos in the social media space: Revelations of Weibo celebrities in ChinaZixue Tai, Xiaolong Liu and Jiang LiangPart II: Chinese Social Media and (Re)Presentation6. Framing food safety issues in China: The interplay of official discourse and civil discourse Yang Wang7. Face-work on social media: The presentation of self on Renren and FacebookXiaoli Tian8. RenRen and social capital in contemporary ChinaNaziat Choudhury and David HolmesPart III: Chinese Social Media and Disability9. WeChat and the Voice Donor campaign: an example of ‘doing good’ on social mediaMike Kent, Katie Ellis, Joy Zhang, and He Zhang10. Accessibility in China: a Peep at a Leopard through a tubeYao Ding and G. Anthony Giannoumis11. The Accessibility of Chinese Social Media Applications: A heuristic evaluation of WeChat appWeiqin Chen, Way Kiat Bong and Nan LiPart IV: Chinese Social Media in Greater China and Overseas12. From (anti-mainland) sinophobia and shibboleths to mobilisation on a Taiwanese message boardJoshua Cader13. The Chineseness of Chinese Internet companies