* This website is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Hello!
This website aims to become a companion to the historical studies of radio in China and the global Sinophone communities. It is currently under construction, but please expect to see these contents soon:
Annotated radio studies bibliography.
For now, I hope you will enjoy this Open Access article of mine:
Please know that there wil be minor changes in the version appearing in the paper-copy of the journal, and this online version will be updated accordingly.
Selected and annotated PDF files of historical radio periodicals published in China in the 1920s-1940s.
For now, I hope you are enjoying browsing the photos already posted here, which is a miniature sample of the named archive.
Audio recordings of (fragments of) historical Chinese/Sinophone radio programs.
This won't be easy!! But let's see how many we can collect.
Introduction to the project "Radio Culture in Modern China, 1923-1949."
This is an Insight Development Grant (IDG) project supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). File Number: 430-2023-00639. This website is funded by this grant.
A series of short essays by Dorothy Dai, the Student Academic Assistant to this project, will appear here soon. Other progresses will also be updated.
Links to other radio studies resources.
Please keep an eye on this website's new developments.
Meanwhile, I'd love to thank these institutions and scholars who have supported this project in different forms (listed alphabetically):
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to reach me at fengxiangjun@berkeley.edu. Thank you!
Yours truly,
Sean
Email: fengxiangjun@berkeley.edu, sean.feng@ubc.ca
Sean got a PhD in Chinese at UC Berkeley (2021), and currently he is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research of Council of Canada Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Asian Studies, the University of British Columbia. In June 2023, he received an Insight Development Grant (IDG) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to development the project "Radio Culture in China, 1923-1949." In addition to this project, he has published on other topics, and is finalizing a dissertation-turned book manuscript on the occult in early modern and modern China. Please see his [departmental page]() and the [Academia.edu site]() for more samples of his research.
Sean has also written the novel 傅蘭雅秘笈 (John Fryer's Secret Scroll) - 200,000 Chinese characters, a historical mystery about John Fryer's (1839-1928) fiction contest in Shanghai (1895-1896) and the rediscovery of the lost fiction manuscripts in 2006 at UC Berkeley. Please email him for a copy of the manuscript should you be interested.
Email: qinyidai@student.ubc.ca
I am Dorothy Dai, a recent graduate from UBC, majoring in Asian Area Studies. My interests include Sinophone literature and gender studies. In the project "Radio Culture in Modern China," my primary role was to curate a brief list of noteworthy segments in archival radio magazines and provide observations and textual analysis.
Email: zsr060540@gmail.com
Shiran is a Software Engineer from Google. She also has passion in literature. In the project "Radio Culture in Modern China," she helps build the website and develop a digital archive for all collected materials.
