Professor Rana Mitter OBE FBA
Professor of History and Politics of Modern China, Oxford University China Centre
Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China and a Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. Books include 'Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013; UK title, China's War with Japan), winner of the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature, named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist; and 'China's Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism' (Harvard, 2020). Co-author, with Sophia Gaston, of the report "Conceptualizing a UK-China Engagement Strategy" (British Foreign Policy Group, 2020). Winner, 2020 Medlicott Medal in History.
A Member of the Ditchley Foundation Programme Committee.
Programme Committee
The Ditchley Internship Programme
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Our Home at Ditchley Park
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