Guest Speaker: Rana Mitter (S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School)

Short bio:

Rana Mitter OBE FBA is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of several books, including China’s War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival, 1937-1945 (US title: Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II) (2013) which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard, 2020). He is co-author, with Sophia Gaston, of the report “Conceptualizing a UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group, 2020). He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History, awarded by the UK Historical Association.  He taught at Oxford for more than twenty years.