Rana Mitter
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| Born | Rana Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter 11 August 1969 Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Academic background | |
| Education | King's College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Thesis | The Japanese occupation of Manchuria (1996) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
Sub-discipline | History of the Republic of China, contemporary politics of China |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Website | hks |
Rana Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter OBE FBA (born 11 August 1969) is a British historian and political scientist who specialises in modern Chinese history. He is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Mitter, of Indian Bengali descent,[2] was born in Cambridge[3] and grew up on the south coast of England, near Brighton.[4] His father, Partha Mitter, taught art history at the University of Sussex and his mother, Swasti Mitter, was a professor of gender and technology at the University of Brighton.[5] Mitter was educated at Lancing College[6] and King's College, Cambridge, where he received a BA (1992), MPhil (1993), and PhD (1996).[7] He was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University in 1993 and 1994.[8] In 1991 he was elected president of the Cambridge Union.[citation needed]
Academic career
[edit]He was formerly director of Oxford's China Centre[4] and Fellow and Vice-Master of St Cross College,[9][2][10] and until 2023 was professor of the history and politics of modern China at the University of Oxford.[11]
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.[12][13][14][15]
On 16 July 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[16]
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to education.[17]
He has published several op-eds for The Guardian on contemporary Chinese politics.[18] He is also a regular presenter for Free Thinking on BBC Radio.[19]
Publications
[edit]Books
[edit]- Mitter, Rana (2000). The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance and Collaboration in Modern China. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520221116.
- —— (2004). A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192803412.
- —— (2013). China's War with Japan, 1937-1945 : The Struggle for Survival. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0141031453.
- —— (2020). China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press. ISBN 978-0674984264.
Selected articles
[edit]- —— (20 February 2024). "The Real Roots of Xi Jinping Thought". Foreign Affairs. Vol. 103, no. 2.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Rana Mitter". Harvard Kennedy School. 27 October 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- 1 2 Mitter, Rana (25 October 2013). "Rana Mitter". Outlook India. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
- ↑ Rivington, James (Autumn 2018). "The Interview: Rana Mitter" (PDF). British Academy Review. p. 37. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
- 1 2 Wener-Fligner, Zach; Timsit, Annabelle (18 May 2021). "Rana Mitter, the historian teaching China's next generation". Quartz. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ↑ Moody, Andrew (2 November 2012). "Oxford aims for China excellence". China Daily. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ↑ "Professor Rana Mitter, OL". Lancing College. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
- ↑ "RANA SHANTASHIL RAJYESWAR MITTER OBE FBA" (PDF). Oxford.
- ↑ "Professor Rana Mitter". Kennedy Memorial Trust. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
- ↑ "Rana Mitter". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017.
- ↑ Datta, Kanika (30 August 2013). "Virtual Coffee with BS: Rana Mitter". Business Standard. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ↑ "Historian of modern China, Rana Mitter OBE FBA to chair 2024 Cundill History Prize". Cundill Prize. 23 February 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Moore, Aaron (February 2014). "China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival". Reviews in History.
- ↑ "The start of history". The Economist. 22 June 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "British Academy Fellowship reaches 1,000 as 42 new UK Fellows are welcomed". British Academy. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- ↑ "BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST—UNITED KINGDOM". The London Gazette (1st supplement). No. 62666. 8 June 2019. p. B13.
- ↑ "Rana Mitter". the Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking - Rana Mitter". BBC. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
Further reading
[edit]- 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).
External links
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- English people of Indian descent
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- Fellows of St Cross College, Oxford
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- Masters of St Cross College, Oxford
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