SABAREE MITRA

Sabaree Mitra is a Professor of Chinese in Jawaharlal Nehru University and an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi. Her teaching and research have spanned the fields of contemporary Chinese literature and criticism, Chinese cultural history, gender issues, IndiaChina cultural relations and regional interaction. Her latest publication is, an edited volume titled China’s May Fourth Movement: New Narratives and Perspectives, published by Routledge in 2023. She is also the Editor of the ICS quarterly journal, China Report, published by Sage. Her coedited volume (with Usha Chandan) in honour of Prof. Patricia Uberoi, titled China's Society and Culture: Studies and Reflections was released on October 2, 2026.

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China’s May Fourth Movement: New Narratives and Perspectives
30 Jan 2023

This book looks at China’s May Fourth Movement and how it has been contextualised in modern Chinese history. Tracing the roots of the movement and of modern Chinese literary and intellectual traditions, the book analyses how the movement transformed ideas, culture, and social practices in the country.

India-China Cultural Interface in Contemporary China:Reinventing the Old, Identifying the New
25 Mar 2020

Existing documentation and scholarship show that in each phase in history the nature of the India-China civilizational interaction was unique and different from interactions during the other phases. This paper is an effort to explore the trajectory of India-China cultural relations in the second half...