Rana Mitter is University Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College. He is the author of <i>The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance and Collaboration in Modern China</i> (California, 2000), and <i>A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World </i> (OUP, 2004), for which he won the title <i>Times Higher</i> Young Academic Author of the Year 2005. The book was also runner-up for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year prize, a finalist for the British Academy Book Prize, and named by Foreign Affairs as one of five “must-read” Notable Books on China. He presents and comments regularly on radio and television, and his reviews and essays have appeared in the <i>Financial Times</i>, <i>History Today</i>, and <i>London Review of Books</i>.