Publications
Articles:
• Forster, E. et al. (2023). “What Have Strikes Achieved?,”
History Today 73, no. 1,
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/what-have-strikes-achieved.
• Forster, E., & Taylor, I. (2021). Asking the fox to guard the chicken coop: in defense of minimalism in the ethics of war and peace.
Journal of International Political Theory, 18(1), 91-109.
• Forster, E. (2020). Behind the mask.
History Today, 70(6).
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/behind-mask
• Forster, E. (2020). Bellicose peace: China’s peace signature campaign and discourses about “peace” in the early 1950s.
Modern China, 46(3), 250–280.
• Forster, E. (2019). Threatened by peace: The PRC’s peacefulness rhetoric and the ‘China’ representation question in the United Nations (1949-71).
Cold War History, 0, 1-17.
• Forster, E. et al. (2019). Do all revolutions end badly?
History Today, 69(4).
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/do-all-revolutions-end-badly
• Forster, E. (2018). Die Entwicklung der Nation in China,
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung,
http://www.bpb.de.
• Forster, E. (2017). Rethinking the inferiority complex: Chinese opinions on Westerners’ knowledge of Chinese (1910s-1930s).
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 45(6), 923-941.
• Forster, E. (2017). The buzzword ‘New Culture Movement’: intellectual marketing strategies in China in the 1910s and 1920s.
Modern Asian Studies, 51(5), 1253-1282.
• Forster, E. (2014). From academic nitpicking to a “New Culture Movement”: how newspapers turned academic debates into the center of “May Fourth”.
Frontiers of History in China, 9(4), 534–557.
Book
• Forster, E. (2018). 1919 –
The year that changed China: a new history of the new culture movement. De Gruyter. (Available
open access)
Book Chapters
• Elisabeth Forster, [forthcoming]. “China,” in
Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals, ed. Cedric Van Dijck, Marisa Demoor, and Birgit Van Puymbroeck (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 449–60.
• Forster, E., & Knoerich, J. (2015). Cross-Taiwan Strait relations in an era of technological change: introduction. In P. Irwin Crookes, & J. Knoerich (Eds.),
Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations in an Era of Technological Change: Security, Economic and Cultural Dimensions (1 ed., pp. 1-15). Palgrave Macmillan.
Reviews
• Forster, E. (2018). Review: ‘Imagining a Postnational World: Hegemony and Space in Modern China’ by Marc Andre Matten’.
國史館館刊 (Bulletin of the Academia Historica), (57), 155-170.
• Forster, E. (2014). Marjorie Dryburgh and Sarah Dauncey (eds): Writing Lives in China, 1600–2010: Histories of the Elusive Self. xii, 265 pp. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. £50. ISBN 978 1 137 36856 0.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , 77(3), 636-637.
