Rana Mitter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 368723 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rana Mitter |
| NOMBRES | Rana |
| APELLIDO | Mitter |
| FIRMA | MITTER R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4190-6629 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 119 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Modern China
This book offers a guide to understanding the rapid changes in contemporary China, focusing on the contradictions and shifting priorities that have shaped its modern identity. It discusses the growing power of Xi Jinping in domestic politics, China’s evolving foreign policy, and the changing nature of Chinese culture and society. It also highlights the connections between China’s modern history and its rapid transformation, including the so-calle…
The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Radical Right, 1918–1951
J. Megan Greene. Building a Nation at War
How much distance from Mao
Relocation and Dislocation
This article argues that massive human displacement was one of the defining factors in China's immediate postwar period (1945–49). It shows that at least three distinctive groups were dispersed during the wartime years and needed to be resettled after the war ended in August 1945: civilian refugees, administrators who had been relocated to the temporary capital at Chongqing, and troops transferred in anticipation of an upcoming civil war between …
China
An Asian nostalgia
Searching for common themes, this afterword questions the meaning and experience of nostalgia in Asia today. The collected essays show the important roles that conflict, trauma, and the need to create a new modernity shape, and are shaped by notions of nostalgia through much of Asia. Perhaps more so than in Europe, nostalgia in Asia seems very national. The case studies in this collection are excellent examples of how nostalgic longings are deplo…
China’s Good War
les soldats morts qui rêvent Aux amours qui s'en sont allés Immaculés Et désolés
Klaus Mühlhahn. Making China Modern
Every generation has its “Big China Book.” As an undergraduate, I leafed endlessly through the then newly published Jonathan D. Spence’s The Search for Modern China (1990), which is still in print, in its third edition, and still a magnificent read. Immanuel C. Y. Hsü’s monumental The Rise of Modern China (1970), also still in print, did the same job for an earlier cohort of students who were coming to terms with the Nixon-era “opening” of China …
State-Building after Disaster
Post-World War II reconstruction in Europe and Asia is a topic of growing interest, but relatively little attention has been paid to the relief and rehabilitation effort in China in the immediate post-1945 period. This article reassesses the postwar program implemented by the Chinese Nationalist (Guomindang) government and the UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration), not just in terms of humanitarian relief, but also a…
The Cold War
Disconcerting as it is for those of us who can remember the Cold War clearly, the period has incontrovertibly become history. We who teach undergraduates have had to come to terms with the fact tha
Manchuria in Mind
Presentism and China's Changing Wartime Past
‘War is like a mirror. Looking at it helps us better appreciate the value of peace ... We must learn the lessons of history and dedicate ourselves to peace’.1 These unexceptionable words were spoken by the Chinese president Xi Jinping on 3 September 2015. There was a certain ironic quality to them, however, since the speech took place as part of a major display of military discipline and technology at the parade commemorating the seventieth anniv…
Brave new China?
Since the ascension to power of Xi Jinping, China has become less liberal at home and more assertive overseas. It is likely it will change further. ‘Brave new China?’ questions whether China today really is a ‘brave new world’ even though a glance at the Shanghai night cityscape may make it appear to be so. China has constantly had to engage in a balancing act between the state, the party, and the people. What do the Chinese people think? Are the…
Modern China
China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities; heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. Modern China: A Very Short Introduction offers the reader an entry to und…
Populist Collaborators
Over the decades, students of empire have come to acknowledge the sheer complexity of the relationship between the colonisers and the colonised. Power was always at the heart of empire, but, viewed through frameworks as varied as economics and gender, it was possible to see that relationships were not always simple or indeed simply oppositional. For scholars of the British and French empires, these reflections will come as little surprise. It has…
The War that Split the World
Journal Article The War that Split the World Get access Masuda Hajimu. Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 388 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). Rana Mitter Rana Mitter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 39, Issue 5, November 2015, Pages 967–969, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhv046 Published: 18 September 2015
Prosperity’s predicament
Prosperity’s predicament: identity, reform, and resistance in wartime China." Asian Studies Review, 40(1), pp. 139–140
The Seventieth Anniversary of World War II's End in Asia
Editor's Introduction: This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II, an event that had profound implications for many Asian countries. This "Asia Beyond the Headlines" feature focuses on the impact that the Japanese surrender, which came several months after the German one, had across East Asia. I put a series of questions to three scholars-modern Japan historian Carol Gluck, China specialist Rana Mitter, and Koreanist Ch…
History's Unfinished Business in East Asia
China ... is determined that it will have greater influence than it enjoys at present, and it will use historical justifications to make its case
China's war with Japan, 1937-1945
Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths and completely reshape East Asia in ways which we continue to confront today. With great vividness and narrative drive Rana Mitter's new book draws o…
Nationalism in East Asia, 1839–1945
Nationalism emerged in East Asia as a result of the influx of Western-derived political thought in the nineteenth century, but its formation drew heavily on pre-existing notions of identity. In Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 set the path for a modern, state-driven nationalism that would underpin the country’s economic and diplomatic resurgence as an imperial power. China, in contrast, was unable to repel foreign incursions, and used nationa…
Culturing Modernity
The Chinese People at War
Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China
A Bitter Revolution
PROLOGUE Tian'anmen Square, 1989 1. Flashpoint - Beijing, May Fourth, 1919 2. Saving the Nation: the era of the May Fourth Movement 3. Erasing the past: iconoclasm and the destruction of tradition 4. Ugly Chinamen and Dead Rivers 5. Making a stand: the lure and limits of democracy EPILOGUE The Legacy of May Fourth
Old Ghosts, New Memories
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in the Journal of Contemporary History, 38(1), January 2003 by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2003 SAGE Publications
Imperialism, Transnationalism, and the Reconstruction of Post-war China
Journal Article Imperialism, Transnationalism, and the Reconstruction of Post-war China: UNRRA in China, 1944–7 Get access Rana Mitter Rana Mitter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 218, Issue suppl_8, 2013, Pages 51–69, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gts034 Published: 17 April 2013
China in World War II, 1937-1945
China's long war against Japan from 1937 to 1945 has remained in the shadows of historiography until recently, both in China and abroad. In recent years, the opening of archives and a widening of the opportunity to discuss the more controversial aspects of the wartime period in China itself have restored World War II in China ('the War of Resistance to Japan') to a much more central place in historical interpretation. Among the areas that this is…
The Manchurian Myth
Classifying Citizens in Nationalist China during World War II, 1937-1941
This paper argues that the first phase of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 saw a significant change in the relationship between state and society in China, leading to a greater use of techniques of classification of the citizenry for purposes of welfare provision and mobilization through propaganda, methods until recently more associated with the Communists than with their Nationalist rivals. The paper draws on materials from Sichuan, the key p…
East is East and West is West? Towards a comparative socio-cultural history of the Cold War
State-Building after Disaster
Post-World War II reconstruction in Europe and Asia is a topic of growing interest, but relatively little attention has been paid to the relief and rehabilitation effort in China in the immediate post-1945 period. This article reassesses the postwar program implemented by the Chinese Nationalist (Guomindang) government and the UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration), not just in terms of humanitarian relief, but also a…
Modernity, Internationalization, and War in the History of Modern China
Twenty years ago, the study of modern China in the west was heavily focused on rural China. It used the rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party as its overarching narrative, and treated the communist victory of 1949 as a watershed. This review surveys several recent trends in the writing of Chinese history in the west which have challenged these models. Among the changes of emphasis in the field that are noted are: a new interest in China's …
Research Note Changed by War
In The 1930s, two wars captured the imaginations of western progressives. One of them, the Spanish Civil War, still lives in popular historical memory. The other, the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45, known in China at the War of Resistance against Japan (Kang-Ri zhanzheng), has been much more in the historiographical and cultural shadows since 1945. Only relatively recently has this situation changed. This research note reflects briefly on some of t…
China
Presentism and China's Changing Wartime Past
‘War is like a mirror. Looking at it helps us better appreciate the value of peace ... We must learn the lessons of history and dedicate ourselves to peace’.1 These unexceptionable words were spoken by the Chinese president Xi Jinping on 3 September 2015. There was a certain ironic quality to them, however, since the speech took place as part of a major display of military discipline and technology at the parade commemorating the seventieth anniv…
Introduction
In a society under pressure, what can the people expect from the state and vice versa? For decades, there has been a scholarly discourse that finds the origins of the answer to this particular question in the
Picturing Victory The Visual Imaginary of the War of Resistance, 1937–1947
The Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1947 has not been sufficiently understood as a narrative in its own right, but rather, as a transitional conflict between Nationalist and Communist rule. The examination of the visual imagery of warfare disseminated through newsprint and books is one way to reinterpret the history of this period. Through a close reading of images printed in a Shanghai newspaper, Zhonghua ribao, during the final days of the battle for…
Writing War
The Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45 was perhaps the single most destructive event in twentieth-century Chinese history. However, there has been relatively little attention paid to how war was experienced in the Nationalist-controlled area (‘Free China’) under Chiang Kaishek. Two autobiographical texts are examined here, one a sequence of reportage from the early war years by the journalist Du Zhongyuan, and one a biji (notebook) written immediately …
The Individual and the International ""I
(2003). The Individual and the International ''I'': Zou Taofen and Changing Views of China's Place in the International System. Global Society: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 121-133
Complicity, Repression, and Regionalism
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Modern China, 25(1), January 1999 by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © 1999 SAGE Publications, Inc
Complicity, Repression, and Regionalism
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Modern China, 25(1), January 1999 by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © 1999 SAGE Publications, Inc
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
At Wanping, around 50 kilometres from the centre of Beijing, the shots that began the eight-year war between China and Japan were fired in 1937. On the site there now stands the Memorial Museum of the Chinese People's War of Resistance to Japan (the museum's own translation of its title, Zhongguo renmin kang-Ri zhanzheng jinianguan) . Inside, a wide array of materials is displayed, but among the most prominent are the waxwork diorama reconstructi…
The Manchurian MythNationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China
A powerful element in twentieth-century Chinese politics has been the myth of Chinese resistance to Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931. Investigating the shifting alliances of key players in that event, Rana Mitter traces the development of the narrative of resistance to the occupation and shows how it became part of China's political consciousness, enduring even today. After Japan's September 1931 military strike leading to a takeover of the N…
The Manchurian Myth
A powerful element in twentieth-century Chinese politics has been the myth of Chinese resistance to Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931. Investigating the shifting alliances of key players in that event, Rana Mitter traces the development of the narrative of resistance to the occupation and shows how it became part of China's political consciousness, enduring even today. After Japan's September 1931 military strike leading to a takeover of the N…
The Manchurian Myth
The Manchurian Myth
Contention and Redemption
The politics of the Republican period in China (1912-49) are often interpreted as a battle between the Nationalists of Chiang Kaishek and the Communists of Mao Zedong, with the transformative ideology of the latter given credit for their eventual victory. However, the political disunity of the Republic actually gave rise to a whole variety of redemptive ideologies whose aim was to redefine 'the people' and 'save the country'. In considering ways …
The Study of Modern China . Eberhard Sandschneider
East is East and West is West? Towards a comparative socio-cultural history of the Cold War
The Individual and the International ""I
(2003). The Individual and the International ''I'': Zou Taofen and Changing Views of China's Place in the International System. Global Society: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 121-133
Old Ghosts, New Memories
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in the Journal of Contemporary History, 38(1), January 2003 by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2003 SAGE Publications
A Bitter Revolution
PROLOGUE Tian'anmen Square, 1989 1. Flashpoint - Beijing, May Fourth, 1919 2. Saving the Nation: the era of the May Fourth Movement 3. Erasing the past: iconoclasm and the destruction of tradition 4. Ugly Chinamen and Dead Rivers 5. Making a stand: the lure and limits of democracy EPILOGUE The Legacy of May Fourth
Crossed histories
Crossed Histories represents a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to "Manchuria" under Japan’s influence from the turn of the twentieth century to 1945. The contributors, who represent the fields of history, literature, film studies, sociology, and anthropology, unpack the complexity of Manchuria as an effect of the geopolitical imaginaries of various individuals and groups shaped by imperialism, colonialism, Pan-Asianism, and the prese…
Modernity, Internationalization, and War in the History of Modern China
Twenty years ago, the study of modern China in the west was heavily focused on rural China. It used the rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party as its overarching narrative, and treated the communist victory of 1949 as a watershed. This review surveys several recent trends in the writing of Chinese history in the west which have challenged these models. Among the changes of emphasis in the field that are noted are: a new interest in China's …
The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou
Ruptured Histories
Ruptured histories
What has the end of the Cold War meant for East Asia, and for how its people understand their recent history? These thought-provoking essays explore a vigorously contested area in public culture, the wars of the modern era
Le massacre de Nankin
La polémique autour des événements qui se déroulèrent à Nankin pendant l'hiver 1937-1938 est devenue une pierre d'achoppement des relations sino-japonaises au 21 e siècle. Cet article soutient que la capacité de la Chine et du Japon à dépasser la controverse actuelle ne dépend pas seulement d'exercices d'interprétation historique. Au contraire, le « devoir de mémoire » exige que les deux parties se demandent pourquoi les événements de 1937-1938 f…
Picturing Victory The Visual Imaginary of the War of Resistance, 1937–1947
The Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1947 has not been sufficiently understood as a narrative in its own right, but rather, as a transitional conflict between Nationalist and Communist rule. The examination of the visual imagery of warfare disseminated through newsprint and books is one way to reinterpret the history of this period. Through a close reading of images printed in a Shanghai newspaper, Zhonghua ribao, during the final days of the battle for…
The Nanking Atrocity 1937–38
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Writing War
The Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45 was perhaps the single most destructive event in twentieth-century Chinese history. However, there has been relatively little attention paid to how war was experienced in the Nationalist-controlled area (‘Free China’) under Chiang Kaishek. Two autobiographical texts are examined here, one a sequence of reportage from the early war years by the journalist Du Zhongyuan, and one a biji (notebook) written immediately …
Modern China
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China’s Brave New World – and Other Tales for Global Times
" China’s Brave New World – and Other Tales for Global Times ." Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 10(1), pp. 66–67
Research Note Changed by War
In The 1930s, two wars captured the imaginations of western progressives. One of them, the Spanish Civil War, still lives in popular historical memory. The other, the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45, known in China at the War of Resistance against Japan (Kang-Ri zhanzheng), has been much more in the historiographical and cultural shadows since 1945. Only relatively recently has this situation changed. This research note reflects briefly on some of t…
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