This research project proposes to analyze Sino-Swiss relations from the beginning of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 to the critical events of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the crushed uprising in Tiananmen Square in 1989, which marked the end of the Cold War. Switzerland’s quick recognition of the PRC as one of the first Western states, in January 1950, facilitated political, economic and cultural contacts b...