Rana Mitter

Rana Mitter

Mitter in 2013
Born 1969 (age 4647)
Nationality British
Institutions Oxford University
BBC Radio 3
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Thesis The Japanese occupation of Manchuria (1996)
Known for Chinese history in the Republican era
Website
www.politics.ox.ac.uk/academic-faculty/rana-mitter.html

Rana Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter FBA (born 1969) is a British historian who specialises in the history of republican China. He is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the Institute for Chinese Studies at Oxford University, 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]

On 16 July 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[9]

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