MICHAEL A. KRYSKO Assistant Professor of history at Kansas State University, USA. Prior to joining the faculty at Kansas State in 2006, he was a member of the history department at Dowling College in New York. He currently lives in Manhattan, Kansas.

• Introduction: 'The great blessings that radio will engender in this old and populous land': American Expectations and Radio in China 'We owe nothing to their sensibilities': Federal Telegraph, the Open Door, and the Washington System in 1920s China 'We are not interested in the politics of the situation': The Radio Corporation of America in Nationalist China, 1928–1937 'By some it is doubted if the Chinese will ever become radio fans': Sino-American Relations and Chinese Broadcasting during the Interwar Era 'As if we lived on Maine St. in Kansas USA': Shortwave Broadcasting and American Mass Media in Wartime China 'Win China for Christ through radio': Religious Broadcasting and the American Missionary Movement in Nationalist China 'Unofficial radio hell-raiser': Radio News and US-Japanese Conflict on the Eve of the Pacific War Conclusion Bibliography

'..a valuable contribution to the scholarship on cultural diplomacy...This engaging account of American broadcasting reveals a complex picture of radio's impact in China.' -Kelly Ann Long, Colorado State University, Journal of American History