News under Fire – China`s Propaganda against Japan in the English–Language Press, 1928–1941

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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News under Fire: China's Propaganda against Japan in the English-Language Press, 1928-1941 is the first comprehensive study of China's efforts to establish an effective international propaganda system during the Sino-Japanese crisis. It explores how the weak Nationalist government managed to use its limited resources to compete with Japan in the international press. By retrieving the long-neglected history of English-language papers published in the treaty ports, Shuge Wei reveals a multilayered and often chaotic English-language media environment in China and demonstrates its vital importance in defending China's sovereignty. Chinese bilingual elites played an important role in linking the party-led propaganda system with the treaty-port press. Yet the development of propaganda institutions did not foster the realization of individual ideals. As the Sino-Japanese crisis deepened, the war machine absorbed treaty-port journalists into the militarized propaganda system and dashed their hopes of maintaining a liberal information order.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-15
Mått:158 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:574 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:302
Förlag:Hong Kong University Press
ISBN:9789888390618

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Shuge Wei is a historian based at the Australian National University. Her research interests include Chinese media history, Chinese political culture, the Sino-Japanese War, and grassroots movements in China and Taiwan.

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A superbly researched and well-nuanced account of an overlooked topic: nationalist China's propaganda system and the multiple ways in which it intersected with the treaty-port foreign-language press of the time. Combining a wealth of archival and newspaper sources, it is destined to be on the 'must-read' list of all who are interested in state propaganda and news dissemination in the Republican period. -- Julia C. Strauss, professor of Chinese politics, SOAS, University of London An absorbing and well-sourced study of KMT propaganda efforts to convince the United States to side with China rather than Japan in WWII. The study shows how the KMT, facing a massive power asymmetry compared to its Japanese opponent, managed to effectively use the soft power of foreign propaganda. -- Rudolf G. Wagner, senior professor of Chinese studies, Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe, Heidelberg University, Germany