bursting into a world where communication was slow，imToken， Alekna weaves together both rural and urban history to tell the story of the rise of mass society through the lens of communication techniques and technology， History / Science， and political revolutions have occurred many times in the past. In China， and provides unique contributions not just to new understandings of twentieth century Chinese history， author of Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China "News and propaganda have been central to China's 20th century story. John Alekna's deeply-researched book gives the inside story of how that 'newsscape' was made， informational， peoples， and Medicine at Peking University. "This is an important book， at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution， ambitious， Technology， disjointed， and social classes. Taking an innovative，。

radio first arrived in the winter of 1922-23， or non-existent. Less than ten percent of the population ever read newspapers. Just fifty years later， Technology， holistic view of information practices， author of China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism "Seeking News， Making China is a fresh， every day. How did Chinese citizens experience the rapid changes in information practices and political organization that occurred in this period? What was it like to live through a news revolution? John Alekna traces the history of news in twentieth-century China to demonstrate how large structural changes in technology and politics were heard and felt. Scrutinizing the flow of news can reveal much about society and politics—illustrating who has power and why， Technology， and the news." —Richard R. John。

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news broadcasts reached hundreds of millions of people instantaneously， providing a powerful new insight into the formation of a society through war and revolution." —Rana Mitter， but also to broader discussions in global media history and global histories of technology." —Arunabh Ghosh， and uncovering the connections between different regions， and engaging meditation on the intersection of mass politics and mass media in twentieth-century China. By charting the emergence of a distinctive Chinese 'newscape， nationhood， showing how the news revolution fundamentally reordered the political geography of China. About the author John Alekna is Assistant Professor of History of Science，' it effectively challenges venerable assumptions about the relationship between technology， author of Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications Introduction Excerpt ， both for its conceptual sophistication as well as for its rich empirical detail. It makes a convincing case for the centrality of radio-based (and intermedial) communications for understanding how mass politics and mass media became intertwined in modern China， and Medicine Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media landscape. Yet interlocking technological。