American radio in China
Subtitle: international encounters with technology and communications, 1919-41
By: Michael A. Krysko
Series: Palgrave studies in the history of the media; Palgrave studies in the history of the media
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780230252660
Subjects: Social conditions; Commerce; Radio broadcasting; Industrial relations; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: We owe nothing to their sensibilities : Federal Telegraph, the open door, and the Washington system in 1920s China; title: We are not interested in the politics of the situation : the Radio Corporation of America in Nationalists China, 1928-1937; title: By some it is doubted if the Chinese will ever become radio fans : Sino-American relations and Chinese broadcasting during the interwar era; title: As if we lived on Maine St. in Kansas USA : shortwave broadcasting and American mass media in wartime China; title: Win China for Christ through radio : religious broadcasting and the American missionary movement in Nationalist China; title: Unofficial radio hell-raiser : radio news and US-Japanese conflict on the eve of the Pacific War.