John Alekna
Biographic Data
| ID | 2166001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Alekna |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Alekna |
| SIGNATURE | ALEKNA J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Notes from Enlightenment Studio
Between 1867 and 1872, a scholar-clerk in Jiangxi Province composed an inventory of scientific and mathematical books. The list records not only their contents, but also the paths they had traced into the scholar's possession. Thus, the inventory preserves a record of how scientific information moved through inland China in the years immediately following the Taiping Rebellion. Analyzing both the physical and metaphorical aspects of this movement…
Seeking News, Making China
John Alekna explores how the rise of radio and the circulation of news transformed China's political and social landscape.He shows how new technologies of communication created a Chinese 'newsscape' that linked distant regions, shaped how people understood politics and community, and redefined the relationship between citizens and the state.By tracing these shifts across the twentieth century, the book reveals how media innovation and political p…
Seeking News, Making China
Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media landscape. Yet interlocking technological, informational, and political revolutions have occurred many times in the past. In China, radio first arrived in the winter of 1922-23, bursting into a world where communication was slow, disjointed, or non-existent. Less than ten percent of the population ever read…
Neither Nation nor Empire
In the period following World War I, societies grappled with the implications and necessity of new mass technologies such as radio. This article situates the institutionalization of radio within this synchronous "global technological moment," not within discrete national or imperial narratives like some scholarship. Examining the transnational experience of an individual and a city in this moment, the article critiques the idea of an exogenous gl…
Neither Nation nor Empire
In the period following World War I, societies grappled with the implications and necessity of new mass technologies such as radio. This article situates the institutionalization of radio within this synchronous "global technological moment," not within discrete national or imperial narratives like some scholarship. Examining the transnational experience of an individual and a city in this moment, the article critiques the idea of an exogenous gl…
Neither Nation nor Empire
In the period following World War I, societies grappled with the implications and necessity of new mass technologies such as radio. This article situates the institutionalization of radio within this synchronous "global technological moment," not within discrete national or imperial narratives like some scholarship. Examining the transnational experience of an individual and a city in this moment, the article critiques the idea of an exogenous gl…
Seeking News, Making China
Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media landscape. Yet interlocking technological, informational, and political revolutions have occurred many times in the past. In China, radio first arrived in the winter of 1922-23, bursting into a world where communication was slow, disjointed, or non-existent. Less than ten percent of the population ever read…
Seeking News, Making China
John Alekna explores how the rise of radio and the circulation of news transformed China's political and social landscape.He shows how new technologies of communication created a Chinese 'newsscape' that linked distant regions, shaped how people understood politics and community, and redefined the relationship between citizens and the state.By tracing these shifts across the twentieth century, the book reveals how media innovation and political p…
Notes from Enlightenment Studio
Between 1867 and 1872, a scholar-clerk in Jiangxi Province composed an inventory of scientific and mathematical books. The list records not only their contents, but also the paths they had traced into the scholar's possession. Thus, the inventory preserves a record of how scientific information moved through inland China in the years immediately following the Taiping Rebellion. Analyzing both the physical and metaphorical aspects of this movement…
Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · 19th-century China (1 work) · abacus (1 work) · Art (1 work) · book inventory (1 work) · China (1 work) · Chinese history and philosophy (1 work)