Dr Rana Mitter is a Professor in the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College. He is the 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 Times Higher Education Supplement in 2005; in the same year, the book was also runner-up for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award, a finalist for the British Academy Book Prize, and named by Foreign Affairs as a “must-read
London – ‘Nationalism and History: China, Japan and the Asia-Pacific in historical perspective’ with Dr Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford


