Ariane Knüsel
Associated Researcher
Ariane Knüsel is Privatdozentin in contemporary history at the University of Fribourg and associate researcher at Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland (Dodis). She specialises in Chinese relations with Western countries (particularly Switzerland), Chinese intelligence networks in Europe, and Western media portrayals of China. She has been Swiss Scholar at the Wilson Center, and Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. In 2012 she published Framing China: Media Images and Political Debates in Britain, the USA and Switzerland, 1900-1950, followed in 2022 by China's European Headquarters: Switzerland and China in the Cold War. She also wrote the history of the Swiss consulate in Guangzhou, and in 2024 together with Ralph Weber Die Schweiz und China: Von den Opiumkriegen bis zur neuen Seidenstrasse.
Contact: ariane.knuesel@clutterunifr.ch