American Radio in China: International Encounters with Technology and Communications, 1919-41 (Palgrave Studies in the History)

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