An Xiao Mina Livres

Exploring the intriguing connections between Chinese characters and emoji, this guide offers a fresh approach to learning Chinese. It highlights the "hanmoji" parallels, revealing surprising similarities that resonate with modern smartphone users. With engaging illustrations and descriptions, the book not only educates but also entertains, making it appealing to emoji enthusiasts, language learners, and fans of quirky visual books. It's a unique resource that showcases the evolution of language in a fun and accessible way.

Mina sees memes as the street art of the social web. She shows readers how they operate to reinforce, amplify, and shape today's politics, and are becoming fundamentally intertwined with how we find and affirm one another, direct attention to human rights and social justice issues, build narratives, and make culture. In parts of the world where public dissent is downright dangerous, memes can belie contentious political opinions that would incur drastic consequences if expressed outright. -- adapted from Amazon.com info