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According to Wikipedia, Rana Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter is a British historian and political scientist of Indian descent who specialises in the history of the Republic of China. He is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. Until 2023 he was Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, formerly director of Oxford's China Centre, and a Fellow and Vice-Master of St Cross College. His 2013 book China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival , about the Second Sino-Japanese War, was well received by critics.

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A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (2004) (141)
The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China (2000) (84)
Old Ghosts, New Memories: China's Changing War History in the Era of Post-Mao Politics (2003) (67)
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 (2013) (63)
Behind the Scenes at the Museum: Nationalism, History and Memory in the Beijing War of Resistance Museum, 1987–1997* (2000) (62)
Ruptured histories : war, memory, and the post-Cold War in Asia (2007) (48)
Modern China: A Very Short Introduction (2008) (42)
China's War With Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival (2013) (33)
East is East and West is West? Towards a comparative socio-cultural history of the Cold War (2003) (28)
Across the Blocs: Exploring Comparative Cold War Cultural and Social History (2004) (25)
Imperialism, Transnationalism, and the Reconstruction of Post-war China: UNRRA in China, 1944–7 (2013) (21)
MODERNITY, INTERNATIONALIZATION, AND WAR IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA (2005) (19)
An Uneasy Engagement: Chinese Ideas of Global Order and Justice in Historical Perspective (2003) (18)
China in World War II, 1937–1945: Experience, Memory, and Legacy* (2011) (16)
Negotiating China's destiny in World War II (2014) (13)
Classifying Citizens in Nationalist China during World War II, 1937–1941* (2011) (13)
China and the Cold War (2013) (12)
China’s Good War (2007) (9)
Presentism and China’s Changing Wartime Past (2017) (9)
The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou: The Transformation of City and Cadre, 1949–54 By James Z. Gao (2006) (9)
Introduction: Re-envisioning Asia, Past and Present (2007) (8)
7 China’s “Good War” Voices, Locations, and Generations in the Interpretation of the War of Resistance to Japan (2007) (7)
The Nanking Massacre (2007) (7)
Research Note Changed by War: The Changing Historiography Of Wartime China and New Interpretations Of Modern Chinese History (2010) (7)
Transnationalism and contemporary global history (2013) (4)
Introduction: Relief and Reconstruction in Wartime China (2012) (4)
The Individual and the International ""I'': Zou Taofen and Changing Views of China's Place in the International System (2003) (4)
Contention and Redemption: Ideologies of National Salvation in Republican China (2002) (4)
WRITING WAR: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MODERNITY AND WARTIME NARRATIVE IN NATIONALIST CHINA, 1937–1946* (2008) (4)
1911: The Unanchored Chinese Revolution* (2011) (4)
Maoism in the Cultural Revolution: A Political Religion? (2008) (4)
Nationalism in East Asia, 1839–1945 (2013) (3)
The Seventieth Anniversary of World War II's End in Asia: Three Perspectives (2015) (3)
Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952 . Edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. pp. 458. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000. (2002) (3)
Communism, Confucianism, and charisma: The political in modern China (2013) (3)
Creating a Chinese Harbin: Nationalism in an International City, 1916–1932. By James H. Carter. [Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiv+217 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3966-3.] (2003) (3)
Educating citizens through war museums in modern China (2007) (3)
State-Building after Disaster: Jiang Tingfu and the Reconstruction of Post-World War II China, 1943–1949 (2018) (3)
Complicity, Repression, and Regionalism (1999) (2)
The Cold War: A World History (2018) (2)
The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945 . Edited by Mark Peattie, Edward Drea and Hans van de Ven. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. xxv + 614 pp. $65.00 ISBN 978-0-8047-6206-9 (2011) (2)
The Chinese people at war : Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937-1945 : [book review] (2012) (2)
News Under Fire: China’s Propaganda against Japan in the English-Language Press, 1928–1941, by Shuge Wei. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017. vi+288 pp. HK$350.00/US$45.00 (cloth). (2019) (2)
Picturing Victory The Visual Imaginary of the War of Resistance, 1937–1947 (2008) (2)
Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910, by Yumi Moon (2016) (1)
1. Manchuria in Mind: Press, Propaganda, and Northeast China in the Age of Empire, 1930–1937 (2017) (1)
Epilogue: New Global Conflict? War, Memory, and Post-9/11 Asia (2007) (1)
Conceptions of Chinese Democracy: Reading Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo. By David J. Lorenzo. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. viii, 257 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper, ebook). (2015) (1)
Maps, Minds, and Visions (2008) (1)
Visualizing China 1845–1965: Moving and Still Images in Historical Narratives. Edited by CHRISTIAN HENRIOT and WEN-HSIN YEH. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xxxiii + 489 pp. €158.00; S220.00. ISBN 978-90-04-22820-7 (2013) (1)
Evil Empire? Competing Constructions of Japanese Imperialism in Manchuria, 1928–1937 (2020) (1)
5. Is China’s economy modern? (2008) (0)
Prasenjit Duara, The Global and Regional in China's Nation-Formation (2011) (0)
Identities and Alliances: (2019) (0)
Hyun Ok Park. Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria. (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2005. Pp. xix, 314. Cloth $84.95, paper $23.95 (2006) (0)
Nationalism, decolonization, geopolitics and the Asian post-war (2015) (0)
Contested childhoods: law and social deviance in wartime China, 1937-1945 (2011) (0)
The Korean Armistice of 1953 and its Consequences - Part Ii (2004) (0)
5. Selling Salvation: The Campaigns Of The Northeast National Salvation Society, 1931–1933 (2019) (0)
Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China: The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948 , written by Harold M. Tanner (2016) (0)
Mao Haijian (edited by Joseph Lawson), The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty (2018) (0)
Shaped by Conflict: New Writing on China’s Wartime Experience in the Early Twentieth Century (2020) (0)
The War that Split the World (2015) (0)
May Fourth Movement: Top Five Readings (2009) (0)
3. Making China modern (2008) (0)
DAVID P. BARRETT and LARRY N. SHYU (ed.): Chinese collaboration with Japan, 1932–1945: the limits of accommodation. xiv, 290 pp. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. (2002) (0)
Relocation and Dislocation: Civilian, Refugee, and Military Movement as Factors in the Disintegration of Postwar China, 1945–49 (2022) (0)
6. Is Chinese culture modern (2008) (0)
MARJORIE DRYBURGH: North China and Japanese expansion, 1933–1937: regional power and the national interest . viii, 249 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. £45. (2002) (0)
4. Shrapnel And Social Spending: Local Elite Collaboration In Manchukuo, 1931–1933 (2019) (0)
Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (2006) (0)
Significant Soil: Settler Colonialism and Japan's Urban Empire in Manchuria by Emer O'Dwyer (review) (2018) (0)
7. Frontline Choices: The Resistance Fighters, Nationalism, And Locality, 1931–1932 (2019) (0)
Reviews of Books:Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 Parks M. Coble (2004) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2008) (0)
The Study of Modern China. Eberhard Sandschneider (2002) (0)
Four. Mao Zedong and Charismatic Maoism (2014) (0)
How much distance from Mao? (2022) (0)
The Nanking Atrocity 1937–38: Complicating the Picture . Edited by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. pp xx, 433. New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2007. (2008) (0)
2. Reform And Reaction: Northeast China Under Zhang Xueliang, 1928–1931 (2019) (0)
2. The old order and the new (2008) (0)
Rethinking Chinese national identity. The wider context of foreign policy making during the era of Hu Jintao, 2002–2012. (2014) (0)
Chapter Five. ‘Life’ as they knew it: Du Zhongyuan’s editorial strategies for the Xinsheng (new life) weekly, 1934-35 (2007) (0)
7. Brave new China (2008) (0)
British Diplomacy and Changing Views of Chinese Governmental Capability across the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945 (2014) (0)
Asia and the Great War: A Shared History. By Xu Guoqi. Oxford University Press. 2016. xvii + 275pp. £35.00.The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia. By Hiro Saito. University of Hawai'i Press. 2016. x + 279pp. $62.00. (2018) (0)
3. Staying On: Co-Optation Of The Northeastern Provincial Elites, 1931–1932 (2019) (0)
An Asian nostalgia? (2021) (0)
6. Know Your Enemy: The Creation Of A Discourse Of Nationalist Resistance, 1931–1933 (2019) (0)
Ottoman Turkey and Qing China (2021) (0)
In a Sea of Bitterness: Refugees during the Sino-Japanese War by R. Keith Schoppa (review) (2013) (0)
Imperialism, industrialisation and war: the role of ideas in China's Japan policy, 1949-1965 (2012) (0)
4. Is Chinese society modern (2008) (0)
9:30-11:00 Panel 5- "Memory and Contemporary Politics: International, National, and Local Dimensions" (2005) (0)
Hegemony and Liberation: Mao Zedong and Zou Taofen in Early Twentieth-century China (2007) (0)
History's Unfinished Business in East Asia (2014) (0)
Prosperity’s predicament: identity, reform, and resistance in wartime China (2016) (0)
1. What is modern China (2008) (0)
China’s Brave New World – and Other Tales for Global Times (2009) (0)
Klaus Mühlhahn. Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping. (2020) (0)
The Korean armistice, 1953 : meaning and consequences for China under Mao Zedong . The Korean armistice and Japanese politics : the establishment of the 1955 system (2004) (0)
The End of the Second World War and the Shaping of Geopolitics in East Asia (2015) (0)
Mémoires Europe-Asie (2007) (0)
China 1945: : Mao's Revolution and America's fateful choice (2014) (0)
Rethinking Women Writers and the Gendered Spaces of Print Media (2020) (0)
Days in the museums (2014) (0)
Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937 Maggie Clinton Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2017 xi + 268 pp. $25.95; £20.99 ISBN 978-0-8223-6377-4 (2019) (0)
China: Revolutionary or Revisionist? (2022) (0)
1. Introduction: Crisis Or Catalyst? (2019) (0)
Borrowed gods and foreign bodies. Christian missionaries imagine Chinese religion. By Eric Reinders. Pp. xvi+266 incl. 10 figs. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2004. £32.50. 0 520 24171 1 (2006) (0)
In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation. Edited by Christian Henriot and Wen-Hsin Yeh. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii +392 pp. £50.00. ISBN 0-521-82221-1.] (2004) (0)
8. Epilogue: Manchuria In Memory And Myth (2019) (0)
War and memory since 1945 (2012) (0)
Civil Government in Warlord China: Tradition, Modernization and Manchuria. By Ronald Suleski. [Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2002. xvi+302 pp. £44.00. ISBN 0-8204-5278-5.] (2002) (0)

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