Australia may ban WeChat – but for many Chinese Australians, it's their 'lifeline'
- Written by: Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney
Gigi/Unsplash, CC BYOne morning in February 2021, I was woken by a WeChat call from my brother in China. Mum had died the previous night, he told me. I wasn’t shocked to hear about Mum’s death – she had been very ill for a couple of years.
In fact, for months before she died, our weekly WeChat exchanges mostly took the form of my...
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