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Prof. Rana Mitter <\/strong>is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China and the Director of the University China Centre at the University of Oxford, and a renowned author and commentator about contemporary issues pertaining to China\u2019s rise and the growing nationalism within China. He is the author of several books, including ‘Modern China: A Very Short Introduction’ (2008, new ed. 2016), and the award-winning ‘A Bitter Revolution: China\u2019s Struggle with the Modern World’ (2004).\u00a0 His most recent book, ‘China\u2019s War with Japan, 1937-45: The Struggle for Survival’ (US title: Forgotten Ally), was named as a 2013 Book of the Year in the Financial Times and the Economist, was named a 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, and won the 2014 RUSI\/Duke of Westminster\u2019s Medal for Military Literature.<\/p>\n A recording of the video can be watched below.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_video link=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/vxP4GMAe0_A”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sophia Gaston, Director of the British Foreign Policy Group, speaks with Prof. Rana Mitter about China\u2019s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rana is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China and the Director of the University China Centre at the University of Oxford, and a renowned author and commentator about contemporary issues pertaining to China\u2019s rise and the growing nationalism within China. Sophia and Rana discuss China\u2019s propaganda campaigns at home and abroad, its strategic challenges on the world stage, and how the UK\u2019s relations with China could evolve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":21325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-past-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}