Rana Mitter
Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter , 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. His 2013 book , about the Second Sino-Japanese War, was well received by critics.
He is also a regular presenter for Night Waves on BBC Radio 3.
Mitter was educated at 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.
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to education.Critical studies, reviews and biography
- Review of China's war with Japan.
- Review of Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination.
