Elisabeth Forster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3662657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisabeth Forster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Forster |
| SIGNATURE | FORSTER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1540-3139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transpacific Reform and Revolution
Asking the fox to guard the chicken coop
Dominant normative theories of armed conflict orientate themselves around the ultimate goal of peace. Yet the deployment of these theories in the international sphere appears to have failed in advancing toward this goal. In this paper, we argue that one major reason for this failure is these theories’ use of essentially contested concepts—that is, concepts whose internally complex character results in no principled way of adjudicating between riv…
Bellicose Peace
In the early 1950s, China engaged in several military actions, most notably in the Korean War. Nevertheless, the World Peace Council, an international organization sponsored by the Soviet Union, praised the country as a “fortress for the protection of world peace” in 1954. This hinged upon a very specific, bellicose understanding of “peacefulness,” which did not mean the rejection of war, but war against the “right” enemy. I discuss this understa…
Threatened by peace
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Republic of China on Taiwan (ROC) not only distrusted, but also feared, the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s assertion to be peace-loving. The reason was that the PRC used its peacefulness claim to negotiate whether the ROC or the PRC should represent ‘China’ in the United Nations, based on a specific definition of ‘peacefulness’ and on the socialist World Peace Movement as a platform of public diplomacy and internat…
The Year That Changed China
The year 1919 changed Chinese culture radically, but in a way that completely took contemporaries by surprise. At the beginning of the year, even well-informed intellectuals did not anticipate that, for instance, baihua (aprecursor of the modern Chinese language), communism, Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu would become important and famous – all of which was very obvious to them at the end of the year. Elisabeth Forster traces the precise mechanisms behind…
Rethinking the Inferiority Complex
Early twentieth-century China was, it has been said, plagued by an ‘inferiority complex’, that is, the notion that Western culture was superior to the Chinese one. Consequently, many Chinese intellectuals learnt English, learnt about the West and studied abroad. Drawing upon Westerners’ manuscript collections, Chinese diaries, letters and published articles from the 1910s to the early 1930s, this paper argues that the ‘inferiority complex’ drew a…
The Buzzword 'New Culture Movement
This article argues that China's New Culture Movement was not a movement, but a buzzword. It was coined by little-known intellectuals in the summer of 1919 and then used by them to sell their own, long-standing agendas. Even though they declared famous intellectuals such as Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu to be the movement's 'centre' and inspiration, some of them were as, if not more, important in shaping the discourses surrounding the expression 'New Cul…
Bellicose Peace
In the early 1950s, China engaged in several military actions, most notably in the Korean War. Nevertheless, the World Peace Council, an international organization sponsored by the Soviet Union, praised the country as a “fortress for the protection of world peace” in 1954. This hinged upon a very specific, bellicose understanding of “peacefulness,” which did not mean the rejection of war, but war against the “right” enemy. I discuss this understa…
The Buzzword 'New Culture Movement
This article argues that China's New Culture Movement was not a movement, but a buzzword. It was coined by little-known intellectuals in the summer of 1919 and then used by them to sell their own, long-standing agendas. Even though they declared famous intellectuals such as Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu to be the movement's 'centre' and inspiration, some of them were as, if not more, important in shaping the discourses surrounding the expression 'New Cul…
Asking the fox to guard the chicken coop
Dominant normative theories of armed conflict orientate themselves around the ultimate goal of peace. Yet the deployment of these theories in the international sphere appears to have failed in advancing toward this goal. In this paper, we argue that one major reason for this failure is these theories’ use of essentially contested concepts—that is, concepts whose internally complex character results in no principled way of adjudicating between riv…
Rethinking the Inferiority Complex
Early twentieth-century China was, it has been said, plagued by an ‘inferiority complex’, that is, the notion that Western culture was superior to the Chinese one. Consequently, many Chinese intellectuals learnt English, learnt about the West and studied abroad. Drawing upon Westerners’ manuscript collections, Chinese diaries, letters and published articles from the 1910s to the early 1930s, this paper argues that the ‘inferiority complex’ drew a…
The Buzzword 'New Culture Movement
This article argues that China's New Culture Movement was not a movement, but a buzzword. It was coined by little-known intellectuals in the summer of 1919 and then used by them to sell their own, long-standing agendas. Even though they declared famous intellectuals such as Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu to be the movement's 'centre' and inspiration, some of them were as, if not more, important in shaping the discourses surrounding the expression 'New Cul…
The Year That Changed China
The year 1919 changed Chinese culture radically, but in a way that completely took contemporaries by surprise. At the beginning of the year, even well-informed intellectuals did not anticipate that, for instance, baihua (aprecursor of the modern Chinese language), communism, Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu would become important and famous – all of which was very obvious to them at the end of the year. Elisabeth Forster traces the precise mechanisms behind…
Threatened by peace
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Republic of China on Taiwan (ROC) not only distrusted, but also feared, the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s assertion to be peace-loving. The reason was that the PRC used its peacefulness claim to negotiate whether the ROC or the PRC should represent ‘China’ in the United Nations, based on a specific definition of ‘peacefulness’ and on the socialist World Peace Movement as a platform of public diplomacy and internat…
Bellicose Peace
In the early 1950s, China engaged in several military actions, most notably in the Korean War. Nevertheless, the World Peace Council, an international organization sponsored by the Soviet Union, praised the country as a “fortress for the protection of world peace” in 1954. This hinged upon a very specific, bellicose understanding of “peacefulness,” which did not mean the rejection of war, but war against the “right” enemy. I discuss this understa…
Asking the fox to guard the chicken coop
Dominant normative theories of armed conflict orientate themselves around the ultimate goal of peace. Yet the deployment of these theories in the international sphere appears to have failed in advancing toward this goal. In this paper, we argue that one major reason for this failure is these theories’ use of essentially contested concepts—that is, concepts whose internally complex character results in no principled way of adjudicating between riv…
Transpacific Reform and Revolution
Political science (6 works) · China (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works)