{"id":7557,"date":"2020-01-11T09:40:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T09:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/?p=7557"},"modified":"2020-01-11T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T14:16:10","slug":"radio-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2020\/01\/radio-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> I was looking around for some information on Chinese radio during the Republic and discovered that there is not much out there. There are some cites in this thesis, (Wei Lei, University of Technology, Sidney 2015) which is not written by a historian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opus.lib.uts.edu.au\/bitstream\/10453\/43382\/2\/02whole.pdf\">https:\/\/opus.lib.uts.edu.au\/bitstream\/10453\/43382\/2\/02whole.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More fun, however, is this article <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radioheritage.net\/Story243.asp\">https:\/\/www.radioheritage.net\/Story243.asp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  This feature originally appeared in <em>Modern Mechanix<\/em>, an American magazine, in 1937. I am not sure how good the early history of radio part is, but the later bits seem to have been drawn from some American who was working in the thriving business of selling radio equipment in China. Some interesting stuff to follow up on&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The other religious station is of a different nature. It is the Fo Yin  station, and is operated by the Shanghai Buddhist Association. The organ  of a section of Buddhists which believes in discarding the old tradition  of tranquility and making an aggressive campaign for religion, this station  reflects an evangelistic fervor comparable to that of many American Christian  institutions. Music, impassioned orations, lessons and plays with a religious  motive can be heard at almost all hours of the day or night, and the station  is among the best known in China.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Mass education activities in Hopei province also make wide use of the radio.  Conforming to orders of the Ministry of Education, radio sets have been  installed in all middle schools of Hopei province, and programs of the  mass-education movement are sent out from several government-owned  stations simultaneously. In its campaign to educate adults as well  as children and to make the masses literate, the Ministry of Education  plans an increasing use of the ether waves.  <\/p><p> Recently the Chinese Government ordered all stations in China to pick up a  broadcast from XGOA at Nanking between 8 and 8:30 o\u2019clock every night  and to re-broadcast it. The program, it was announced, would consist of  good music, talks, and news announcements in both English and Chinese.  A howl immediately arose from operators of stations in Shanghai,  particularly the foreign-owned stations, who resent the surrender  of one of their best broadcasting periods to the Government. Although  the Chinese stations objected also, they quickly complied with the  Government order, but the foreign stations showed a disposition to resist.  Finally, however, all except two, an American and a French station,  decided to comply. The Government is still attempting to reach an amicable  agreement with the two defiant stations which will result in their following  the example of their colleagues.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking around for some information on Chinese radio during the Republic and discovered that there is not much out there. There are some cites in this thesis, (Wei Lei, University of Technology, Sidney 2015) which is not written by a historian. https:\/\/opus.lib.uts.edu.au\/bitstream\/10453\/43382\/2\/02whole.pdf More fun, however, is this article https:\/\/www.radioheritage.net\/Story243.asp This feature originally appeared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[195,154,155,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-culture","category-religion","category-republican","category-science-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1XT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7559,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions\/7559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}