Rana Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter is a British historian and political scientist of Indian descent who specialises in the history of the Republic of China. He is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, formerly director of Oxford's China Centre, and a Fellow and Vice-Master of St Cross College. His 2013 book China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival, about the Second Sino-Japanese War, was well received by critics.
