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Learning Chinese through emoji, and emoji through Chinese

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The cover design for The Hanmoji Handbook flanked by some happy party face emoji

It’s just been two months since The Hanmoji Handbook: Your Guide to the Chinese Language Through Emoji was launched! The handbook is published by MITeen Press and authored by fellow 88 Bar contributors Jason Li and An Xiao Mina, alongside ⭐️ author Jennifer 8. Lee. What’s more, the book draws on their decade of experience writing about technology,…

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Is Twitter Catching Up To Weibo?: Multimedia and Emoji in Western Social Media

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The new Twitter interface, courtesy of fly.twitter.com.
The new Twitter interface, courtesy of fly.twitter.com.

There’s an interesting article in Penn Olson recently about Twitter’s new redesign and just how much it resembles Sina Weibo.  It’s been circulating around a few tech circles I follow:

Twitter’s slick new redesign has brought it – visually and practically – closer to…

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