Professor Rana Mitter on How China's Wartime Past is Changing its Present - and Future
Channel: IIEA
Date: 11/01/2013

About the Speech:

China's harrowing experience of constant warfare between 1937 and 1949 has played a major role in shaping the nation's worldview. Combining a historical analysis of wartime China and an assessment of China's future goals in domestic and foreign policy, Professor Rana Mitter will provide a unique insight into how China operates as a global power in the 21st century.

About the Speaker:

Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He is the author of A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (2004), and Modern China: A Very Short Introduction (2008).