Seeking news, making China information, technology, and the emergence of mass society

Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media landscape. Yet interlocking technological, informational, and political revolutions have occurred many times in the past. In China, radio first arrived in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alekna, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Standford, California Stanford University Press 2024, ©2024
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the question of the sparrows
  • The newsscape of 1919
  • Sun Yat-sen, Shanghai, and the technopolitics of semicolonial China, 1922-1925
  • The Manchurian state constructs a newsscape, 1922-1931
  • Reading the radio, listening in the streets, 1927-1937
  • The occupation of the mind, 1937-1945
  • Red news and red women, 1937-1949
  • Socialized media, 1949-1958
  • The technopolitics of disorder
  • Conclusion : desire and the transformation of the newsscape