The English-Language Press Networks of East Asia, 1918-1945

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-1-905246-67-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

This study is the first to assess the combined significance of the English-language newspapers of China, Japan and Korea in the period 1918-45. It not only frames the English-language press networks in the international media history of East Asia but also relates them to media developments in the ‘British world’ linking Fleet Street to the Empire and Dominions, and to the rise of the United States as a broker of international opinion on and in the Asia-Pacific. The English-language newspapers occupied a narrow but significant segment of the public sphere in East Asia in the inter-war years.As forums of opinion on Japanese, Chinese and Western interests in East Asia, they also served as vehicles of propaganda, particularly during the crisis-ridden 1930s and the Pacific War. With this examination of the media affiliations, editorial line, and access to official bodies in East Asia and theWest of most of the English-language newspapers published in East Asia in the period under review, the author demonstrates that these publications formed distinct networks in terms of the editorial positions they took vis-a-vis the key issues of the day, especially Japan’s imperial project in East Asia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Connor, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Presse & Journalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Notes on Conventions; Foreword; List of Figures; List of Plates; Introduction; 1: The background, 1822-1918; 2: The Foreign Ministry network, 1904-1937; 3: Britain in East Asia and the Japan Chronicle network, 1891-1936; 4: The United States in East Asia and the Japan Advertiser network, 1911-1936; 5: Reporting Japan, 1918-1930; 6: Reporting Japan in China, 1927-1937; 7: Endgame, 1936-1941; 8: Publicity warriors: the Japan network, 1941-1945; 9: Conclusions; Bibliography; Appendix 1: The Missouri Mafia; Appendix 2: Unpublished and lost Yenching University Master’s Theses; Appendix 3: The Youngs of Kobe; Appendix 4: Foreign correspondents in Chungking, 1942; Appendix 5: Exchange rates; Appendix 6: Japan correspondents of The Times, London, 1868-2009; Appendix 7: The English-language press of Japan, 1861-1956; Appendix 8: The English-language press of China: a selective chronology, 1845-1949; Appendix 9: The English-language press of Korea, c.1890-1937; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter O'Connor, Ph.D. (2006) in history at SOAS, University of London, teaches at Musashino and Waseda universities, Tokyo. He has published extensively on the transnational media history of 20th century East Asia.
Recently, he completed, as series editor, Series 2 of Critical Readings on Japan, 1906-1948: Countering Japan’s Agenda and the Communist Menace in East Asia, (June 2011), and thus the last ten volumes of the 40-volume collection The Representation of Japan in Modern East Asia, 1872-1948, to be published in June 2011.