Laura De Giorgi is a Professor of Chinese History at Ca’ Foscari University Venice. Her research interests include the history of media and propaganda in twenty-century China and the history of cultural relations between Italy and China in the Republican and Maoist eras. She has worked on the history of radio broadcasting in Republican China and she is currently working on a project on China's international radio and the sonic dimensions of China's perception in Europe.
In Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society (Stanford University Press, 2024), John Alekna explores how the rise of radio and the circulation of news transformed China’s political and social landscape. He shows how new technologies of communication created a Chinese ‘newsscape’ that linked distant regions, shaped how people understood […]
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