Rana Mitter
Mitter in 2013
Born
Rana Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter

(1969-08-11) 11 August 1969
Cambridge, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Known forChinese history in the Republican era, contemporary Chinese politics
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisThe Japanese occupation of Manchuria (1996)
Academic work
InstitutionsOxford University
Websitewww.politics.ox.ac.uk/academic-faculty/rana-mitter.html

Rana Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter OBE FBA (born 11 August 1969) is a British historian and political scientist of Indian descent who specialises in the history of the Republic of China. He is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. Until 2023 he was Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, formerly director of Oxford's China Centre,[1] and a Fellow and Vice-Master of St Cross College.[2][3][4] 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.[5][6][7][8]

He is also a regular presenter for Night Waves (now known as "Free Thinking") on BBC Radio 3.[9]

British of Bengali heritage,[3] Mitter was born in Cambridge[10] and grew up on the south coast of England, near Brighton.[1] 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).[11]

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to education.[12]

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

He has published several op-eds for The Guardian on contemporary China politics.[13]

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.
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References

  1. 1 2 "Rana Mitter, the historian teaching China's next generation". Quartz. 18 May 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "Rana Mitter".
  3. 1 2 "Rana Mitter".
  4. ↑ Datta, Kanika (30 August 2013). "Virtual Coffee with BS: Rana Mitter". Business Standard. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  5. ↑ Overy, Richard (6 June 2013). "China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  6. ↑ Moore, Aaron. "China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival". Reviews in History. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  7. ↑ "The start of history". The Economist. 22 June 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  8. ↑ Lovell, Julia (18 July 2013). "China's war With Japan 1937-1945: the struggle for survival, by Rana Mitter, review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  9. ↑ "BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves - Rana Mitter". BBC.
  10. ↑ Rivington, James (2018). "The Interview: Rana Mitter" (PDF). British Academy Review. British Academy. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  11. ↑ "British Academy Fellowship reaches 1,000 as 42 new UK Fellows are welcomed". British Academy. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  12. ↑ "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B13.
  13. ↑ "Rana Mitter | The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
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