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

  • Written by Jianqing Chen, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of Film and Media Studies, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
imageWeChat aims to be everything to everyone but remain mostly in the background.Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

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