Watching the Sun Rise - Australian Reporting of Japan, 1931 to the Fall of Singapore

Informationen zum Autor Jacqui Murray is a seasoned journalist. She holds a Ph.D. in Asian Cultural Studies from the University of Queensland. Klappentext Historians have long claimed that a tradition of fear of Japan dominated Australian thinking about foreign affairs and defense after Japan's defeat of Russia in 1905 and that this fear remained widespread throughout the Australian population until the Pacific War. This study of Australian reporting on Japan challenges that claim by exposing a culture of state censorship, intimidation of the media, and neglect of official public discussion of foreign affairs in the years 1931-1941 which resulted in newspapers, radio, and news reels projecting a collective national consciousness of Japan as a nation of little import-despite very real fears in senior political ranks about Japanese designs on Australia. Watching the Sun Rise details not only government peace-time media censorship but also war-time propaganda flows from Australian, British, and Japanese sources into the Australian media and examples of cooperation and/or espionage among media personnel. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Incident at Mukden Chapter 2 In News Just to Hand Chapter 3 The Big Hookup Chapter 4 Agency Wars, Australian Woes Chapter 5 Flattery and Facts Chapter 6 Radio Wars Chapter 7 Broadcasting for Peace Chapter 8 Trading Propaganda Chapter 9 Lies and Spies Chapter 10 In Service to the Master Chapter 11 Eastern Adventures

Product details

• Authors: Jacqui Murray, Murray Jacqui
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.2004
• EAN: 9780739107829
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-0782-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, International Relations, General & world history, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Second World War, Australasian & Pacific history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General