Rana Mitter is professor of the history and politics of modern China and director of the University China Centre at the University of Oxford. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Manchurian Myth and A Bitter Revolution, and is a presenter for BBC Radio 3's arts and ideas program, Free Thinking.
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Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation’s brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the “victory”—a key foundation of China’s rising nationalism. For most of its history, the People’s Republic of Chin... SEE MORE