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Jianqing Chen

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Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of Film and Media Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

TikTok users fleeing to the app RedNote are mingling with Chinese social media users. VCG/VCG via Getty Images

January 19, 2025

What’s happening on RedNote? A media scholar explains the app TikTok users are fleeing to – and the cultural moment unfolding there

Jianqing Chen, Washington University in St. Louis

A digital media scholar and longtime RedNote user gives a firsthand account of US and Chinese social media users interacting on the app.

WeChat aims to be everything to everyone but remain mostly in the background. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

October 4, 2023

China’s WeChat is all‑encompassing but low‑key − a Chinese media scholar explains the Taoist philosophy behind the everything app’s design

Jianqing Chen, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

The design philosophy of the everything app WeChat may seem paradoxical, being simultaneously pervasive and inconspicuous. But this idea of “everythingness” goes back to ancient Taoist philosophy.

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