Ariane Knüsel
Biographic Data
| ID | 5056064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ariane Knüsel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ariane |
| FAMILY NAME | Knüsel |
| SIGNATURE | KNÜSEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Fribourg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8446-5638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
No Ski Shoes, Chocolate or Hairsprays
This article discusses the experiences of Western European companies during China's opening to Western trade and investment in the late 1970s and 1980s. While much has been written about the Chinese policies that led to the introduction of capitalist measures in China, the experiences of European companies have not been covered in detail so far. Using records from several Swiss company archives as well as additional Chinese and Swiss archives and…
Wenn Schüler*innen zu Detektiven der Vergangenheit werden
Since 2021, students at the Kantonsschule Baden have been participating in a twistory project that is rewriting the city of Baden’s history. Students select a local museum object or archival document and research what it can tell us about life in Baden. They record their findings in an academic paper and then write an Instagram post and a blog about it. The blogs are uploaded to the Kanti website, resulting in a virtual timeline on the history of…
Worse than Hitler and Nazi Germany
This article relies on reports written by Swiss diplomats during the Cultural Revolution in Beijing to discuss how they experienced the Cultural Revolution, and how the violence and chaos that they witnessed in 1966 and 1967 affected their mental health. Switzerland's importance as a hub for China in Western Europe meant that the Swiss diplomats were not harmed by the Red Guards. As a result, the Swiss diplomats gained a unique perspective among …
China's European Headquarters
During the Cold War, the People's Republic of China used Switzerland as headquarters for its economic, political, intelligence, and cultural networks in Europe. Based on extensive research in Western and Chinese archives, China's European Headquarters charts not only how Switzerland came to play this role, but also how Chinese networks were built in practice, often beyond the public face of official proclamations and diplomatic interactions. By t…
Swiss Counterintelligence and Chinese Espionage during the Cold War
This article discusses Swiss counterintelligence measures against Chinese espionage during the Cold War, focusing on the problems the Swiss Federal Police encountered when trying to uncover and eliminate the national and transnational intelligence networks the PRC operated from Switzerland in the 1950s and 1960s. Using newly declassified Swiss Federal Police files, the article details the Swiss federal counterintelligence system as well as the Fe…
White on the outside but red on the inside’
Using previously classified archival records, this article discusses how Chinese diplomatic staff operated a variety of intelligence networks from Switzerland during the Cold War. As the site of China’s first diplomatic mission in central Western Europe and the location of the United Nations’ European headquarters, Switzerland was uniquely suited as China’s intelligence hub in Europe in the 1950s and 1960s. Chinese officials established and ran a…
Framing China
Framing China sheds new light on Western relations with and perceptions of China in the first half of the twentieth century. In this ground-breaking book, Ariane Knüsel examines how China was portrayed in political debates and the media in Britain, the USA and Switzerland between 1900 and 1950. By focusing on the political, economic, cultural and social context that led to the construction of the particular images of China in each country, the au…
Tricky business
This article analyzes the role that commercial interests played in Swiss perceptions of informal imperialism in China during the 1920s. Commercial interests were the driving force behind the establishment of Swiss relations with China in 1918 and Swiss rejections of Chinese demands to abolish extraterritoriality in the 1920s. Swiss commercial relations with China were deeply rooted in the social, economic, and political institutions and processes…
TOM Buchanan. East Wind
Tom Buchanan's insightful and exhaustively researched study fills a gap in the historiography of British views on China. While the past years have seen an increasing number of publications about Anglo-Chinese relations, the British Left's relations with China have been mostly ignored. Buchanan analyzes three aspects of this relationship between 1925 and 1976: namely, the role the British Left played in organizations like the China Campaign Commit…
The British Empire
Tricky business
This article analyzes the role that commercial interests played in Swiss perceptions of informal imperialism in China during the 1920s. Commercial interests were the driving force behind the establishment of Swiss relations with China in 1918 and Swiss rejections of Chinese demands to abolish extraterritoriality in the 1920s. Swiss commercial relations with China were deeply rooted in the social, economic, and political institutions and processes…
White on the outside but red on the inside’
Using previously classified archival records, this article discusses how Chinese diplomatic staff operated a variety of intelligence networks from Switzerland during the Cold War. As the site of China’s first diplomatic mission in central Western Europe and the location of the United Nations’ European headquarters, Switzerland was uniquely suited as China’s intelligence hub in Europe in the 1950s and 1960s. Chinese officials established and ran a…
The British Empire
TOM Buchanan. East Wind
Tom Buchanan's insightful and exhaustively researched study fills a gap in the historiography of British views on China. While the past years have seen an increasing number of publications about Anglo-Chinese relations, the British Left's relations with China have been mostly ignored. Buchanan analyzes three aspects of this relationship between 1925 and 1976: namely, the role the British Left played in organizations like the China Campaign Commit…
Tricky business
This article analyzes the role that commercial interests played in Swiss perceptions of informal imperialism in China during the 1920s. Commercial interests were the driving force behind the establishment of Swiss relations with China in 1918 and Swiss rejections of Chinese demands to abolish extraterritoriality in the 1920s. Swiss commercial relations with China were deeply rooted in the social, economic, and political institutions and processes…
Framing China
Framing China sheds new light on Western relations with and perceptions of China in the first half of the twentieth century. In this ground-breaking book, Ariane Knüsel examines how China was portrayed in political debates and the media in Britain, the USA and Switzerland between 1900 and 1950. By focusing on the political, economic, cultural and social context that led to the construction of the particular images of China in each country, the au…
White on the outside but red on the inside’
Using previously classified archival records, this article discusses how Chinese diplomatic staff operated a variety of intelligence networks from Switzerland during the Cold War. As the site of China’s first diplomatic mission in central Western Europe and the location of the United Nations’ European headquarters, Switzerland was uniquely suited as China’s intelligence hub in Europe in the 1950s and 1960s. Chinese officials established and ran a…
Swiss Counterintelligence and Chinese Espionage during the Cold War
This article discusses Swiss counterintelligence measures against Chinese espionage during the Cold War, focusing on the problems the Swiss Federal Police encountered when trying to uncover and eliminate the national and transnational intelligence networks the PRC operated from Switzerland in the 1950s and 1960s. Using newly declassified Swiss Federal Police files, the article details the Swiss federal counterintelligence system as well as the Fe…
China's European Headquarters
During the Cold War, the People's Republic of China used Switzerland as headquarters for its economic, political, intelligence, and cultural networks in Europe. Based on extensive research in Western and Chinese archives, China's European Headquarters charts not only how Switzerland came to play this role, but also how Chinese networks were built in practice, often beyond the public face of official proclamations and diplomatic interactions. By t…
Wenn Schüler*innen zu Detektiven der Vergangenheit werden
Since 2021, students at the Kantonsschule Baden have been participating in a twistory project that is rewriting the city of Baden’s history. Students select a local museum object or archival document and research what it can tell us about life in Baden. They record their findings in an academic paper and then write an Instagram post and a blog about it. The blogs are uploaded to the Kanti website, resulting in a virtual timeline on the history of…
Worse than Hitler and Nazi Germany
This article relies on reports written by Swiss diplomats during the Cultural Revolution in Beijing to discuss how they experienced the Cultural Revolution, and how the violence and chaos that they witnessed in 1966 and 1967 affected their mental health. Switzerland's importance as a hub for China in Western Europe meant that the Swiss diplomats were not harmed by the Red Guards. As a result, the Swiss diplomats gained a unique perspective among …
No Ski Shoes, Chocolate or Hairsprays
This article discusses the experiences of Western European companies during China's opening to Western trade and investment in the late 1970s and 1980s. While much has been written about the Chinese policies that led to the introduction of capitalist measures in China, the experiences of European companies have not been covered in detail so far. Using records from several Swiss company archives as well as additional Chinese and Swiss archives and…
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · China (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Cold war (3 works) · Communism (3 works)