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Beyond just the generational divisions among our Chinese American community, there’s culture, language and information gaps that we’re trying to bridge through the [Xin Sheng Project].
Episode 5: Across Oceans, Tables, & Platform
Asian Americans Need More Than Just Hollywood Representation to Address Anti-Asian Racism
As the anti-carceral Asian advocacy group WeChat Project has pointed out, the focus on hate crimes can lead to increased funding for police departments as well as increased police presence in Asian neighborhoods, as we saw shortly after the Atlanta shooting.
Asians in Arcadia Against Homeless People? It’s Complicated
The Xin Sheng Project — formerly known as the WeChat Project — has been a volunteer project through which Ding and the youth-led Sunrise Arcadia have been translating facts about homelessness for Chinese speakers and dispelling some of the myths being circulated.
Interview Feature: The WeChat Project
Lis Chi Siegel interviews [The WeChat Project], an intervention against right-leaning and generally misinformed content on WeChat. [The WeChat Project] speaks about combating anti-Blackness amongst the Sino diaspora and ‘The WeChat Project’ as a potential site of Black and Asian solidarity.
How Trump’s Attempted WeChat Ban Would Devastate Chinese American Families Like Mine
...there are groups of Chinese Americans who are actively writing articles to other Chinese Americans on WeChat through initiatives like the WeChat Project, as a way to organize Chinese Americans to vote and support Black Lives Matter.
How WeChat Fueled Chinese American Debate Over Affirmative Action
Niu said progressive voices on WeChat have grown rapidly in the past few years . . . such as Xin Sheng Project, a fact-checking initiative founded by a group of Chinese American college students who immigrated to the U.S. as children.
Social Media Sites Often Used by Asian Americans Have a Big Problem with Right-Wing Misinformation
...the WeChat Project focuses on creating in-language political resources that can be readily distributed through ethnic news media and social networks. The mission of The WeChat Project is to fight right-wing misinformation on WeChat, to provide alternative progressive views, and to spark and continue intergenerational conversations on these topics
Understanding the Chinese American Right
A new project started by progressive Chinese American college students called “The WeChat Project” has also started to challenge the conservative discourse on WeChat.
Asian Americans Support for Affirmative Action Increased Since 2016
New organizations have also emerged to help Asian American communities to better understand affirmative action and to challenge myths and misinformation. For example, the WeChat Project launched when a group of college students mobilized to write essays in English and Chinese to encourage intergenerational dialogue on affirmative action, as well as share information and counter misinformation and fake news.
Breaking (Fake) News!
What exactly is “misinformation” and what is being done about it? With our guests from The WeChat Project, we look at a case study of second-generation Asian Americans combating misinformation about Black Lives Matter, racism, and affirmative action. They remind us of the traumas many immigrant parents face and offer tips on how to engage in productive dialogue—that avoid misinformation—on social media.
Online Activism: A Year in Review
For the Chinese diaspora, there's not only this generational divide [between children and parents and grandparents]; there's often also a language and a cultural divide... The WeChat Project is trying to bridge the gap by starting conversations between the generations online.
“When people come to us and say, ‘This is why I’m joining [Xīn Shēng Project],’ everybody has a story about how this is important in their life, about how disinformation affects their own understanding of the world, their families … their relationships with one another, and how they’re able to make it through, especially recent new cycles of anti-Asian violence,” Guo said about her experiences recruiting team members.
One fact check at a time: Asian Americans wage war on digital misinformation
Liberal Chinese Americans Are Fighting Right-Wing WeChat Disinformation
A series of essays written by second-generation Chinese Americans urging their parents to support the movement and responses from the older generation went viral after appearing on Chinese American. In the election season, editors published another series of letters fostering conversations between liberal young Chinese Americans and their parents, who are often conservative.
Can WeChat Be Woke? The Progressive Chinese Americans Countering Right-Wing Narratives
Rather than condescend to or patronize conservative members of the Chinese-American community, “[w]e’re trying to come from a place of love and care for our community and for our families.
Activist Spotlight: The WeChat Project
At its core, that’s what the initiative is about—conversation. Its Chinese name, 心声, literally translates to “voices from the heart.” That name reflects The WeChat Project’s emphasis on mutual respect and understanding over didacticism. Such work requires empathizing with the historical traumas both older and younger generations have suffered and how those experiences may impact political affiliations.
