American Radio in China: International Encounters with Technology and Communications, 1919-41 (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-- 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. Michael A. Krysko. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 258-273) And Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Series page......Page 2 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of Tables......Page 7 List of Illustrations......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 11 A Note on Romanization......Page 14 Introduction “The Great Blessings That Radio Will Engender in This Old and Populous Land”: American Expectations and Radio in China......Page 16 1 “We Owe Nothing to Their Sensibilities”: Federal Telegraph, the Open Door, and the Washington System in 1920s China......Page 32 2 “We Are Not Interested in the Politics of the Situation”: The Radio Corporation of America in Nationalist China, 1928–37......Page 57 3 “By Some It Is Doubted If the Chinese Will Ever Become Radio Fans”: Sino-American Relations and Chinese Broadcasting during the Interwar Era......Page 84 4 “As If We Lived on Maine St. in Kansas, USA”: Shortwave Broadcasting and American Mass Media in Wartime China......Page 105 5 “Win China for Christ through Radio”: Religious Broadcasting and the American Missionary Movement in Nationalist China......Page 141 6 “Unofficial Radio Hell-Raiser”: Radio News and US-Japanese Conflict on the Eve of the Pacific War......Page 169 Conclusion......Page 203 Notes......Page 215 Bibliography......Page 273 Index......Page 290 Palgrave Macmillan Cover 1 Series page 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Tables 7 List of Illustrations 8 Acknowledgments 11 A Note on Romanization 14 Introduction “The Great Blessings That Radio Will Engender in This Old and Populous Land”: American Expectations and Radio in China 16 1 “We Owe Nothing to Their Sensibilities”: Federal Telegraph, the Open Door, and the Washington System in 1920s China 32 2 “We Are Not Interested in the Politics of the Situation”: The Radio Corporation of America in Nationalist China, 1928–37 57 3 “By Some It Is Doubted If the Chinese Will Ever Become Radio Fans”: Sino-American Relations and Chinese Broadcasting during the Interwar Era 84 4 “As If We Lived on Maine St. in Kansas, USA”: Shortwave Broadcasting and American Mass Media in Wartime China 105 5 “Win China for Christ through Radio”: Religious Broadcasting and the American Missionary Movement in Nationalist China 141 6 “Unofficial Radio Hell-Raiser”: Radio News and US-Japanese Conflict on the Eve of the Pacific War 169 Conclusion 203 Notes 215 Bibliography 273 Index 290 9780230252660