TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krysko,Michael A.
TI  - American radio in China: international encounters with technology and communications, 1919-41 
SN  - 9780230252660(hbk)
AV  - HE 8699 K94a 2011
U1  - 384.540951/09041 
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan, |c 2011.
KW  - Radio broadcasting -- China -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Radio broadcasting -- United States -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Industrial relations -- China -- History -- 20th century
KW  - China
KW  - Commerce
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1912-1949
N1  - Includes bibliographical references(p. 258-273) and index; 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 Nationalists 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
N2  - "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"--
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