Peaceful China?

The Idea of Just War in Twentieth-Century China
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-009-88444-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

This is an important new study of Chinese discourses on war and peace from the end of the First World War to the death of Mao Zedong. Exploring these discourses and how they changed over this period, Elisabeth Forster focusses, in particular, on jus ad bellum and the question of whether it was just to start a war. She proceeds from the observation that, while many of China's successive and competing governments claimed that China was inherently peaceful, the peacefulness claim contrasts with the many wars China has waged or threatened.  She examines the logic of China's peacefulness claim, whether China developed a unique discourse on war and peace or was part of broader global conversations, and what we can learn from China about the global project to create world peace in the twentieth century and, especially, about that project's failure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Forster, Elisabeth

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Joining the just war conversation; 2. The Second World War; 3. The Civil War (1945–9); 4. Just war conversations; 5. Just war of revolution versus peaceful transition in the 1960s and 1970s; Conclusion; References; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Forster, Elisabeth
Elisabeth Forster is Lecturer in Chinese History at the University of Southampton, UK. Forster is also the author of 1919 – The Year That Changed China: A New History of the New Culture Movement, published in 2018.