Sinophobia was popular in Chinese language communities on Twitter during the early COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global surge in Sinophobia. We examine how Chinese language users responded to COVID-19 on Western social media by compiling a unique database (CNTweets) with over 25 million Chinese tweets mentioning any Chinese characters related to China, the Chinese Co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yongjun Zhang, Hao Lin, Yi Wang, Xinguang Fan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2023-08-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01959-6