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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krysko, Michael A., 1969-

Series:

Palgrave studies in the history of the media

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radio broadcasting--China--History--20th century.

Radio broadcasting.

Radio broadcasting--United States--History--20th century.

Industrial relations--China--History--20th century.

Industrial relations.

Commerce.

History.

China--Commerce--United States--History--20th century.

China.

United States--Commerce--China--History--20th century.

United States.

China--Social conditions--1912-1949.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xiii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230252660

0230252664

OCLC:

690086412