Rana Mitter, 21st century superpower debate in London, March 2011

Rana Mitter

Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford; Region Head, Oxford Analytica

Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College. He is author of The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance and Collaboration in Modern China (California, 2000) and A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World (Oxford, 2004), for which he was named Young Academic Author of the Year by the UK Times Higher Education Supplement in 2005. His latest book is Modern China: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2008).

Mitter is Director of a research programme funded by the Leverhulme Trust on "The Persistence of Conflict: China’s War with Japan and its impact, memory and legacy, 1931 to the present". He Presents and contributes regularly to programmes on historical and political topics on television and radio, including on the History Channel, and Night Waves and The Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 in the UK. His general-reader essays and reviews have appeared in publications including the London Review of Books, Financial Times, and History Today.