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Professor Rana Mitter MA PhD (Cambridge)
Post: Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, Fellow, St Cross College
Appointed: 2001
College: St Cross College
Office Details: Institute for Chinese Studies
Phone No: (01865) 280385 - Contact electronically
Website: http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/china/
Research Activities and Interests:
I work on the emergence of nationalism in modern China, both in the early twentieth century and in the contemporary era. I am particularly interested in the impact of China's war with Japan in the 1930s and 1940s on the development of Chinese politics, society, and culture.
Research News
- Mar 2009, Media and government appearances by China academic Professor Rana Mitter, Read more
- Mar 2008, New publication by Dr Rana Mitter, Read more
- May 2007, Dr Rana Mitter Awarded Leverhulme Grant , Read more
- Nov 2004, Dr Rana Mitter, University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Politics, Read more
- Nov 2005, Dr Rana Mitter - THES Young Academic Author of the Year, Read more
Teaching Responsibilities:
Course Director, M Phil Modern Chinese Studies (Oriental Studies)
Course provider: PPE 227 -- Politics in China
Course provider: FS 26 (Modern History) -- China in War and Revolution 1890-1949
Previous Posts Held:
Lecturer in History, University of Warwick (1999-2001)
Junior Lecturer, Politics and Society of Modern China, Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford (1996-98)
Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford (1996-99)
Media Expertise:
Modern Chinese politics and history
Media appearances include History Channel television documentaries (The Samurai and the Swastika, Ancient China, Samurai Japan, etc) and BBC radio appearances including Start the Week, Today, Night Waves, Brief Lives, Thinking Allowed, and The Sunday Feature.
Publications:
Publications include:
'Behind the Scenes at the Museum: Nationalism, History and Memory in the Beijing War of Resistance Museum, 1987-1997', The China Quarterly. Vol 161 (2000)
The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China. (University of California Press, 2000) - Honourable Mention for the Gladstone Prize of the Royal Historical Society 2001
“Contention and redemption: Ideologies of National Salvation in Republican China.” Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 3:3 (Winter 2002), pp. 44-74
'Old ghosts, new memories: China's changing war history in the era of post-Mao politics', Journal of Contemporary History. Vol 38, 1 (2003)
“An uneasy engagement: Chinese ideas of global order and justice in historical perspective,” in Rosemary Foot, John Lewis Gaddis, and Andrew Hurrell, ed., Order and Justice in International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
“The Individual and the International ‘I’: Zou Taofen and Changing Views of China’s Place in the International System.” Global Society 17:2 (2003), pp. 121-133.
“East is East and West is West: Towards a Comparative Sociocultural History of the Cold War.” (with Patrick Major) Cold War History 4:1 (October 2003), pp. 1-22.
A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World. (Oxford University Press, 2004) - Winner, THES Young Academic Author of the Year, Runner-up, Longman/History Today Book of the Year, finalist, British Academy Book Prize, 2005; chosen by Foreign Affairs as a Notable Book on China
(ed. with P Major), Across the Blocs: Cold War Cultural and Social History . (Frank Cass, 2004)
'Modernity, Internationalization, and War in the History of Modern China', The Historical Journal. Vol 48, 2 (2005) pp. 523-543
“Manchuria in Mind: press, propaganda, and Northeast China in the age of empire, 1930-37,” in Mariko Asano Tamanoi, ed., Crossed Histories: New Approaches to Manchuria in the Age of Empire (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press and the Association for Asian Studies, 2005), 25-52
(ed. with Sheila Jager), Ruptured Histories: War and Memory in Post-Cold War Asia . (Harvard University Press, 2007)
'"Le devoir de la memoire: histoire, trauma et le massacre de Nankin"', Vingtieme Siecle. (2006)
Reviews and essays in History Today, London Review of Books, New Internationalist, Financial Times
Profile last updated: 24/12/2007