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News under Fire: China’s Propaganda against Japan in the English-Language Press, 1928–1941 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. Chinese bilingual elites played an important role in linking the party-led propaganda system with the treaty-port press. Yet the development of propaganda institution 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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half Title, Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. p. v
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. vi-vii
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  1. Names of the Guomindang Government Organizations
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  1. Abbreviation of Archives
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  1. Notes on the Text
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-18
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  1. Part I: A Nation without a Voice
  1. 1. Bridge or Barrier: The Treaty-Port English-Language Press in China, 1920s
  2. pp. 21-45
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  1. 2. Beyond the Front Line: The Jinan Incident
  2. pp. 46-62
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  1. Part II: Growing Pains
  1. 3. To Control the Uncontrollable: The Nanjing Government’s International Propaganda Policies, 1928–1931
  2. pp. 65-95
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  1. 4. Shadowed by the Sun: The Mukden Incident and the Shanghai Incident
  2. pp. 96-124
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  1. 5. Facing Dilemmas: China’s International Propaganda Activities, 1932–1937
  2. pp. 125-161
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  1. 6. Friend or Foe: The Amō Doctrine
  2. pp. 162-182
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  1. Part III: Propaganda during the War
  1. 7. From Nanjing to Chongqing: International Propaganda in Wartime, 1937–1938
  2. pp. 185-218
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  1. 8. Confronting Encirclement: Chongqing, 1939–1941
  2. pp. 219-251
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  1. Conclusion
  2. pp. 252-258
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  1. Glossary
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  1. Bibliography
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  1. Index
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