{"product_id":"9789888390618","title":"News under Fire: China's Propaganda against Japan in the English-Language Press, 1928-1941","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNews under Fire: China's Propaganda against Japan in the English-Language Press, 1928–1941\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive study of China's efforts to establish an effective international propaganda system during the Sino-Japanese crisis. It explores how the weak Nationalist government managed to use its limited resources to compete with Japan in the international press. By retrieving the long-neglected history of English-language papers published in the treaty ports, Shuge Wei reveals a multilayered and often chaotic English-language media environment in China and demonstrates its vital importance in defending China's sovereignty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinese bilingual elites played an important role in linking the party-led propaganda system with the treaty-port press. Yet the development of propaganda institutions did not foster the realization of individual ideals. As the Sino-Japanese crisis deepened, the war machine absorbed treaty-port journalists into the militarized propaganda system and dashed their hopes of maintaining a liberal information order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hong Kong University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47065654165744,"sku":"9789888390618","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789888390618_p0.jpg?v=1763693434","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789888390618","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}