Article ID: CBB667521946

Neither Nation nor Empire: Situating Shanghai Radio in a Global Technological Moment, 1922–25 (October 2022)

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In the period following World War I, societies grappled with the implications and necessity of new mass technologies such as radio. This article situates the institutionalization of radio within this synchronous "global technological moment," not within discrete national or imperial narratives like some scholarship. Examining the transnational experience of an individual and a city in this moment, the article critiques the idea of an exogenous globalization. From 1922 to 1925, entrepreneur E. G. Osborn founded radio stations across three different political formations in East Asia—imperial Japan, semicolonial Shanghai, and colonial Hong Kong. Focusing on Shanghai, this article uncovers how Osborn's radio station sparked a struggle for control between anticolonial nationalists, imperialist institutions, and a military concerned about its rivals' growing technological capabilities. Broadcasting thus reflected and amplified an unstable postwar world, whose contours were still under negotiation.

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Authors & Contributors
Wormbs, Nina
Dunbar-Hester, Christina
Alekna, John Norman
Cynthia B. Meyers
Andrew Bottomley
Weiss, Allen S.
Concepts
Radio
Broadcasting
Communication technology
Technology and politics
Television
Technology and music
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
Sweden
Europe
Great Britain
New Zealand
Germany
Institutions
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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