American Radio in China: International Encounters With Technology and Communications, 1919-41

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.

MICHAEL A. KRYSKO Assistant Professor of history at Kansas State University, USA. Prior to joining the faculty at Kansas State in 2006, he was a member of the history department at Dowling College in New York. He currently lives in Manhattan, Kansas.