Rana Mitter

Rana Mitter
Mitter in 2013
Born	August 11, 1969
Nationality	British
Known for	Chinese history in the Republican era, contemporary Chinese politics
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Thesis	The Japanese occupation of Manchuria (1996)
Academic work
Institutions	Oxford University
Website	www.politics.ox.ac.uk/academic-faculty/rana-mitter.html

Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter OBE FBA (born 1969), known as Rana Mitter, is a British historian and political scientist of Indian origin who specialises in the history of republican China. He is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, formerly director of Oxford's China Centre, and a Fellow and Vice-Master of St Cross College. His 2013 book China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival (titled Forgotten Ally: China’s War with Japan, 1937-45 for publication in the US), about the Second Sino-Japanese War, was well received by critics.

He is also a regular presenter for Night Waves (now known as "Free Thinking") on BBC Radio 3.

British of Indian heritage, he grew up on the south coast of England, near Brighton. Mitter was educated at Lancing College, and King's College, Cambridge, where he received both his MA and PhD; in 1991 he was elected President of the Cambridge Union. He was also a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University. On 16 July 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to education.

Mitter works mainly on the emergence of nationalism in Modern China.

He has published several op-eds for The Guardian on contemporary China politics.

Bibliography

• Mitter, Rana (2000). The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, resistance and collaboration in modern China. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0520221117.
• Mitter, Rana (2004). A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192803417.
• Mitter, Rana (2013). China's War with Japan, 1937-1945 : The Struggle for Survival. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0141031453.
• Mitter, Rana (2020). China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674984264.

Critical studies, reviews and biography

• Kushner, Barak (November 2013). "[Review of China's war with Japan]". Reviews. History Today. 63 (11): 62.
• Bickers, Robert (7 December 2017). "Barbarians Out!". The New York Review of Books. 64 (19): 42–44. Review of Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination.