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Bellicose peace: China’s peace signature campaign and discourses about “peace” in the early 1950s
No full textIn 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 understanding, its function within the international community, its embeddedness in international political thinking, and its promulgation among the Chinese population, using the example of a campaign in 1950 to collect signatures on a World Peace Council–authored appeal against the atomic bomb. Self-promotion as a peaceful nation in the bellicose sense served a variety of purposes for the young People’s Republic of China (PRC), most importantly the goal to instill bloc thinking in the PRC’s population and to gain prestige within the new international order of the Cold War.</p
Review: ‘Imagining a Postnational World: Hegemony and Space in Modern China’ by Marc Andre Matten’
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Book review: Marjorie Dryburgh and Sarah Dauncey (eds): Writing Lives in China, 1600–2010: Histories of the Elusive Self. xii, 265 pp. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Get PDFWorld War One, Student protests in China and the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party
No full textWithin the centenary commemorations of the First World War, one history-making aspect that is often overlooked is what the war had to do with the foundation by young Chinese intellectuals of the Chinese Communist Party, the party that continues to govern China today. In this Blog post, Elisabeth Forster discusses what was fought over in China’s war of ideas
Behind the mask
No full textThe Chinese government’s reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic reveals much about its memory of the humiliations of the 19th century
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