Rana Mitter

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Rana Mitter
Rana Mitter.jpg
Mitter in 2013
Born 1969 (age 54–55)
Nationality British
Known for Chinese history in the Republican era, contemporary Chinese politics
Website [<span%20class="url">.politics.ox.ac.uk/academic-faculty/rana-mitter.html www.politics.ox.ac.uk/academic-faculty/rana-mitter.html%20www<wbr/>.politics<wbr/>.ox<wbr/>.ac<wbr/>.uk<wbr/>/academic-faculty<wbr/>/rana-mitter<wbr/>.html]</span>]
Academic background
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Thesis title The Japanese occupation of Manchuria
Thesis url http://search.lib.cam.ac.uk/?itemid=%7Cmanuscrpdb%7C17215
Thesis year 1996
Academic work
Institutions Oxford University

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, Deutsche Bank Director of the Dickson Poon China Centre, and a Fellow and Vice-Master of St Cross College.[1][2][3] 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.[4][5][6][7]

He is also a regular presenter for Night Waves (now known as "Free Thinking") on BBC Radio 3.[8]

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).[9]

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to education.[10]

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

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Critical studies, reviews and biography

  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Review of China's war with Japan.
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References

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  10. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 62666. p. . 8 June 2019.