Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College. In this insight, Rana Mitter attempts to re-examine as many aspects as possible of China’s experience of the highly destructive, eight-year war with Japan. Mitter discusses the major leaders (Chiang Kaishek, Mao Zedong and Wang Jingwei) and about the ordinary people who became caught up in terrible times.

Image courtesy of interviewee