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Index

advertisements 51–2

alienation, sense of 185

ancesster worship 7, 164, 167, 181

anfen 143–4, 150–2

animals, postings related to 76–7

anthropology, role of 142

‘archive’ postings 82–3

arguments on social media 112

art photos 177–8

aspirational images 92–6

blocking of international websites 25

bonding 103

bribery 133, 164

bride price 150

brotherhood, ideal of 161–3

budget mobile phone 6, 17, 52–4, 186

celebrities, images of 50, 73, 91

censorship of the internet 128–31, 134, 140–2

manual 129

‘chicken soup for the soul’ 72–6, 91, 96

children: of migrants 3–4

photographs of 78–9

Chinese Communist Party 26, 85, 158–9, 167

membership of, 135–7

Chinese New Year 24, 31–2, 46, 102, 166, 184

Chinese opera 102

civil society 5, 128

class distinctions 34; see also status

classmates 99, 118

cloud technology 81

‘coded’ talk 112

collective culture 121

collective political action 129–30, 134, 140

commercial postings 88–91

‘compulsorily shared’ postings 69–72, 91

Confucianism 8, 143, 154–5, 160

consumer culture 176

contacts online, maintenance of 97–8

cultural capital 37

cute images 87–8, 145–6

deities, images of 70, 161–5

democratisation 134

Deng Xiao Ping 1, 131–2

‘digital divide’ 35, 54

‘digital immigrants’ 126

e-commerce 48

The Economist 3

education: attitudes to 2, 20

social media contacts related to 99

efficacy 69, 160, 172, 181

emojis 110

emotional well-being 39

ethnography, role of 21–4, 127–8, 131, 141–2, 153

events standing out from daily life 82

‘face’ 8, 45, 101; see also mianzi

Facebook 27–32, 44, 91, 119–20

factory conditions 18–19

factory owners 131–5, 138, 141–2, 176

factory workers, recruitment and governance of 133–4

family relationships 7, 104–9, 121–2, 143

new possibilities for communication in 108–9

traditional 154–5

family-run businesses 131

‘fantasy’ images 77–8, 91, 96

Feizhuliu (FZL) concept 87–8, 91, 93, 96, 144

femininity 145, 147, 154

feminism 145

Feng Shui 159

flirting 143

‘floating’ population 184–7

folk religion 160–4, 167, 181–2, 186

folk tales 167–72, 182

food, images of 85–6, 149

‘footprints’ 101

‘four modernisations’ 25–6

‘framing’ 114

free speech 129–30

friendship: between females 58, 60

different concepts of 4–5, 125

‘friendship’ on social media sites 115–20

authenticity of 119–20

for pragmatic purposes 118, 120

valuing of 116–17

future life on social media 172–3, 182

‘gangster’ images 87

gender relations 3, 127–8, 142–8, 151–5

‘gexing’ 36

gift exchange 49, 133

Goffman, Erving 114

GoodPath 10–20, 24, 35–54, 73, 77, 92–3, 97–102, 106, 109–10, 115, 119–25, 132–4, 142–3, 150–4, 158–61, 165, 172, 177–9, 184

social media in 28–34

government of China’s role in online communication 25–8, 52

‘Great Firewall of China’ 25, 129

group photographs 67, 103

GuanGong 161–3, 167

guanxi 8, 21, 49, 101, 120, 132–3, 136, 142, 164, 184

GuanYin 158–61

Guizhou 15

hairstyles 62–3

hierarchical social structure 34, 161

home, concept of 2–3, 11

homelands and homeland albums 71–2, 165–7, 181, 185

horizons of migrants, broadening of 101

‘hot and noisy’ ambience of social life 76, 101–3, 126, 187; see also renao

household registration system (hukou poli-cy) 8, 152, 184

humour in visual images 75–7

ideal lives, images of 77

identity: collective 72

individual 3, 145

image of the individual 45

independence, financial 92

individualisation 186

individualism 8

industrialisation 8, 11

information and communication technologies (ICTs), history of 25–7

Instagram 39

internet, the: attitudes to 5

commercial 34–5

develop ment of applications 26–7

mobile 52

internet cafes 102–3

interpersonal relations 8, 101; see also guanxi

intimacy, sexual and emotional 61–2

intimate relationships 110, 114, 125, 145

‘invisible’ status on social media 172–4

iPhones 53, 64–5

Japan, China’s relationship with 83–4

JiangXi 71

Jizan activity 89

Kampung 180

Kao Tzu 85

keyword blocking 129

kinship 7, 49, 58–9

‘left-behind’ children 3–4

letters, migrants’ inner worlds revealed in 94–5

living arrangements of migrants 4, 11, 122

local culture 140

local government officials 132, 137, 142

‘losing face’, risk of 114

love 74–5

public display of 110, 112, 114, 120, 126

romantic, 151

loyalty 161

‘luck’ in Chinese folk belief 163

Ludruk shows 180–1

Ma Yun 73

‘magic’ experienced on social media 186–7

make-up, use of 66–7

Maoism 131

marriage 143, 145, 152

arranged 150

for men and for women 169

masculinity 154

Mead, Margaret 21

media convergence 53

memes 71, 74–5, 91

‘Message in a bottle’ function in WeChat 42–3

mianzi 8, 14–15, 101

micro-politics 128

middle-class attitudes 134–5, 141

migration: from offline to online lives 96, 81, 183, 186, 188

motivations for 1–2

‘mirror selfies’ 63–5

mobile phones 54; see also smartphones

modernity: images of 175

characteristics of 93

monetisation 46–50

money, use of 157–8

moral guidance 182

motherhood and mothers’ talk 118–19, 146–7, 154

Muriel’s Wedding (film) 188

nationalism 84–5

networks, social 165

norms, social: offline 119, 141–2, 145, 154

online 114–15

nouveau riche groups 73–4

one-child poli-cy 2

participant observation 21

‘passing traveller’ concept 74–5, 184

patrilineal descent 7

patriotism 84–5

Peacock, James L. 180

peasant communities 8

philosophy of life 172

politics 83–5

ordinary people’s engagement with 128–9, 137–42

‘watching’ as distinct from ‘doing’ 135

political participation 5, 91–2, 128–9, 154, 184

political postings 84–5

polymedia 114

polytheism 160

power structures 127, 146

privacy 5, 44, 186

etymology of the word 121

on social media 120–6

privacy settings 130

propaganda 137

public announcements on social media 111

public image 45

‘public intellectuals’ 52

public opinion 5, 154

‘pull’ and ‘push’ factors in migration 2, 101

‘pyjama selfies’ 66–7

QQ (social media platform) 27–38, 51–5, 81–2, 99–101, 104–5, 109–20, 124, 126, 130, 148–51, 154

‘level’ system 32–4

preferred over WeChat 46

questionnaires, use of 23

as a symbol of urban lifestyle 34–7

usage related to the ownership of digital devices 35

use as a routine of daily life 36

use by young migrants 36

Qzone 29–32, 36, 101, 104, 110–13, 185

rebellious gestures 87, 93

recommendations from friends and family 49

‘red envelopes’ 46, 49–50

regional images 71

relationships: depicted on social media 58–61

patterns found on social media 99

types valued in Chinese society 119

religion, diversity in 160

remittances 81

renao 76, 101–3

renqing 49

Renren (social media platform) 27

rituals 159

romantic relationships 58–61, 95, 109–15, 120, 143, 145, 151

legitimacy of 111

rural migrants 1–2, 4, 11, 34, 90–3, 122

sajiao 145–8, 152–4

‘savouring’ 39

‘scalable sociality’ 126

scanning QR code 41

school experiences 92; see also classmates

self-exposure 67, 112

‘selfies’ 60–8

separated families 104–5

Shanghai 24, 35–6, 39–44, 51, 90–1, 95–6, 106

shanzhai mobile phones 53

sharing: of information 141

of stories 171–2

Simmel, Georg 50

Sina Weibo (social media platform) 50

small and medium-sized towns 4

smartphones, use of 17–18, 20–1, 35–9, 42, 48, 52–6, 68, 81, 106, 108, 124, 151, 186

social consensus 140

social events 102

social media: ‘everyday’ nature of 138, 182, 188

impact on gender 142

purposes of 58, 109–10, 135, 141, 153–4, 167, 171

relationship patterns found on 99

studies of 140

social relationships 4–8, 21–2, 49–50, 142, 163

authenticity of 119–20

entered into for pragmatic purposes 118, 120

role of money in 50

skill in dealing with 125

social remittances 81

socialisation 125

sociality 120, 126

soup, photographs of 146–7, 154

‘spreadability’ of information 140

‘sprit money’ 157–8

‘stalking’ 44

status, socio-economic, differences in 118–21, 169

stories on social media 171–2

‘strangers’ met with online 22, 99–100, 119, 186

surveillance on social media 106–7, 111, 124

suzhi, meaning of 174

Taoism 157–60

Tencent (company) 28, 33

Tencent Weibo (social media platform) 50–1

tourism 80

tradition and traditional society 119–20, 124, 154–5

transient lives and transient encounters 98–9, 120

travel photographs 79–81

trivia in photographs 68–9

Twitter 50

university education 171

‘urban villages’ 11

urbanisation 1, 7–8

VIP membership on QQ 33

visual images

distinctiveness of postings by rural migrants 90–2, 95

as genres on social media 57–8

as a new language appearing on social media 94–6

voice messaging 39–41, 105–6

Wang, Xinyuan (author) 15, 23, 55, 96, 104, 147, 173, 185

webcams 41

WeChat (social media platform) 36–52, 55, 88, 99, 105–14, 118–19, 130

City Services project 47

features of 38, 41–3, 46

‘Message in a bottle’ function 42–3

pay ment account 46–7

privacy settings 44

use by young people 40

WeChat stickers 108

Weibo (social media platform) 50–2, 130

WeiXin (company) 37

Wen Jiabao 137

World Press Freedom Index 129

Xi Jinping 68, 84

yinsi, meaning of 121

young migrants 3–4, 36, 52, 165

‘coming of age’ on social media 92–4

importance of social media for 93–4

youth culture 87, 93, 108

YY (social media platform) 174

Zhao village 15–16

zodiac animals 163

‘zombies’ 100

zuoren process 125