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American radio in China : international encounters with technology and communications, 1919-41 / Michael A. Krysko

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave studies in the history of the mediaPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, |c 2011.Description: xiii, 286 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230252660(hbk)
  • 0230252664 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 384.540951/09041
LOC classification:
  • HE 8699 K94a 2011
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HE 8699 K94a 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000107097

"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"-- Provided by publisher

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.

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