American Radio in China

International Encounters with Technology and Communications, 1919-41
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-32230-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 385 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media

Interwar era efforts to expand US radio into China floundered in the face of flawed US policies and approaches. Situated at the intersection of media studies, technology studies, and US foreign relations, this study frames the ill-fated radio initiatives as symptomatic of an increasingly troubled US-East Asian relationship before the Pacific War.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krysko, Michael A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: 'The great blessings that radio will engender in this old and populous land': American Expectations and Radio in China 'We owe nothing to their sensibilities': Federal Telegraph, the Open Door, and the Washington System in 1920s China 'We are not interested in the politics of the situation': The Radio Corporation of America in Nationalist China, 1928–1937 'By some it is doubted if the Chinese will ever become radio fans': Sino-American Relations and Chinese Broadcasting during the Interwar Era 'As if we lived on Maine St. in Kansas USA': Shortwave Broadcasting and American Mass Media in Wartime China 'Win China for Christ through radio': Religious Broadcasting and the American Missionary Movement in Nationalist China 'Unofficial radio hell-raiser': Radio News and US-Japanese Conflict on the Eve of the Pacific War Conclusion Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

MICHAEL A. KRYSKO Assistant Professor of history at Kansas State University, USA. Prior to joining the faculty at Kansas State in 2006, he was a member of the history department at Dowling College in New York. He currently lives in Manhattan, Kansas.