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"""This is an important book, 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 provides unique contributions not just to new understandings of twentieth century Chinese history, but also to broader discussions in global media history and global histories of technology.""—Arunabh Ghosh, 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, providing a powerful new insight into the formation of a society through war and revolution.""—Rana Mitter, author of China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism ""Seeking News, Making China is a fresh, ambitious, 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,' it effectively challenges venerable assumptions about the relationship between technology, nationhood, and the news.""—Richard R. John, author of Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications"

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John Alekna is Assistant Professor of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at Peking University.

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