Professor Rana Mitter
About
Professor Mitter studies the emergence of nationalism in modern China, both in the early twentieth century and in the contemporary era. He is 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.
Expertise
- Contemporary Chinese politics - government, international relations, society and cultural including Taiwan and Hong Kong (not economics)
- Chinese history, particularly 19th and 20th century
- Cold War and post-Cold War politics, history and culture, particularly in Asia
Selected publications
Media experience
Professor Mitter has extensive media experience. He presents and contributes to BBC Radio Three's Night Waves and Sunday Feature, and has worked with BBC Radio 4's Start the Week and Today, among many others.
He has contributed to television documentaries broadcast on the History Channel (UK, US and worldwide) including The Samurai and the Swastika, Philosophy of the East, and Ancient China. He has written articles on China and East Asia for general interest publications including History Today, New Internationalist, Business China, China Review, and BBC History.
Recent media work
- CNN - Chinese companies are threatening to punish employees caught using Apple products
- The Times - Just who is Huawei listening to?
- The Telegraph - President Xi Jinping offers fresh thinking for a new Chinese era
- South China Morning Post - For Trump, a lesson from Pearl Harbour
- South China Morning Post - An angry US and an HK in crisis: two worlds colliding
- ABC - How Mao's Cultural Revolution is shaping Chinese politics, half a century on
- The Guardian - Beijing accused of attempt to co-opt churches
Languages
English, Mandarin