Dr Lucas Tse

Dr Lucas Tse

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Economics, History, Politics and International Relations

Examination Fellow since 2019

I am a historian of modern China and of international order. Recent areas of research include the universalist claims of 20th century internationalism; who 'counts' as sovereign and the politics of recognition; and alternative ways of narrating the end of empires.

Links

Email: lucas.tse@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Research Areas

Modern China

International Organisations

Nationalism and Internationalism

Inequality

Featured Research

The Bund, Shanghai (上海), after a renovation project

Unshackled? China and the Limits of International Law, 1919–1929

New research reconstructs how a generation of Chinese lawyers turned the post-war order's own promise of equality against the "unequal treaties" that bound their country — and why the order was built so that none of its own machinery could deliver what it promised.