China's Smiling Face to the World: Beijing's English-Language Magazines in the First Decade of the People's Republic

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dc.contributor.advisorGao, James Z.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLazarick, Leonarden_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-02-04T08:05:52Z
dc.date.available2006-02-04T08:05:52Z
dc.date.issued2005-12-13en_US
dc.description.abstractIn the 1950s, the People's Republic of China produced several English-language magazines to inform the outside world of the remarkable transformation of newly reunified China into a modern and communist state: People's China, begun in January 1950; China Reconstructs, starting in January 1952; and in March 1958, Peking Review replaced People's China. The magazines were produced by small staffs of Western-educated Chinese and a few experienced foreign journalists. The first two magazines in particular were designed to show the happy, smiling face of a new and better China to an audience of foreign sympathizers, journalists, academics and officials who had little other information about the country after most Western journalists and diplomats had been expelled. This thesis describes how the magazines were organized, discusses key staff members, and analyzes the significance of their coverage of social and cultural issues in the crucial early years of the People's Republic.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/3276
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistory, Asia, Australia and Oceaniaen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMass Communicationsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledJournalismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPeople's Chinaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledChina Reconstructsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPeking Reviewen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPRC foreign relationsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpropagandaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIsrael Epsteinen_US
dc.titleChina's Smiling Face to the World: Beijing's English-Language Magazines in the First Decade of the People's Republicen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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