Rana Mitter is a Chinese history and politics professor at Oxford University, where he is also the director of the China Centre. He has written numerous books, including The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance and Collaboration in Modern China, A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World, and China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival. His most recent book, China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism, which was published this fall,