Faculty Postholders
Professor Rana Mitter
M.A., Ph.D.
University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Politics, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China
Chinese Studies
Email: rana.mitter@chinese.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Rana Mitter has published on the political and cultural history of twentieth-century China, and is currently working on the connections between war and nationalism in China from the 1930s to the present. His interests include the Republican period (1912-1949), the Cold War and Sino-Japanese relations.
Supervision Interests
Modern East Asian history, Cold War history
Selected Publications:
- '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. (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2000)
- 'Old ghosts, new memories: China's changing war history in the era of post-Mao politics', Journal of Contemporary History. Vol 38(1) (2003)
- A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World. (Oxford, 2004)
- (ed.) Across the Blocs: Cold War Cultural and Social History . (London, 2004)
- 'Modernity, Internationalization, and War in the History of Modern China', The Historical Journal. Vol 48, 2 (2005) pp. 523-543
Future Publications:
- '"Cold War Culture"' in Advances in Cold War History. (London, 2006)
- ''Life' as they knew it: Du Zhongyuan's Editorial Strategies for the Xinsheng (New Life) Weekly, 1934-35' in Reading China: Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse. (Leiden, 2006)
- '"Le devoir de la memoire: histoire, trauma et le massacre de Nankin"', Vingtieme Siecle. (2006)
- (ed.) Ruptured Histories: War and Memory in Post-Cold War Asia . (Cambridge, Mass., 2007)
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