Professor Rana Mitter addresses the All Party Parliamentary Universities Group on Chinas role in World War II

Rana Mitter recently addressed the All Party Parliamentary Universities Group on China's role in World War II, and how the eight years its people spent resisting the Japanese helped shape the country's future.

The lecture was based on his recent book, China's War with Japan, 1937–45: The Struggle for Survival, which was chosen as a 2013 Book of the Year by theEconomist, Financial Times, New Statesman, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Telegraph, and Observer.

Rana told parliamentarians: "The story of China in World War II is one of the last great unknown stories of one of the most famous world conflicts.

"It's really very strange that we haven't known in the West what happened to China in World War II for so many decades, because the effect on China was devastating."

You can read more about this event by clicking here: http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/arts_at_oxford/140319.html