Stephen R. Platt is an American historian and writer. He is currently a professor of Chinese history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1]
Stephen R. Platt
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| Occupation(s) | Author, historian |
| Employer | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Platt holds a PhD in Chinese history from Yale University (2004). His area of expertise is in modern China, especially in the nineteenth century and the Qing dynasty's foreign relations.[2]
In 2007 he published Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese and Modern China.[3]
Platt's books Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom and Imperial Twilight (examine East-West relations in China during the 19th century, focusing on the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) and the period leading up the First Opium War (1800-1842).[citation needed]
He published Imperial Twilight in 2018, and Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom in 2012.[3]
Platt has also written for The New York Times, Chinafile, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and Late Imperial China.[3]
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