Stephen R. Platt

Stephen R. Platt
Occupation(s)Author, historian
EmployerUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Stephen R. Platt is an American historian and writer. He is currently a professor of Chinese history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1]

Early life and education

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]

Writing career

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]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Steve Pfarrer (May 10, 2018). "'I write what I would love to read': Award-winning historian Stephen Platt pens new book on the 19th-century Opium War". Daily Hampshire Gazette. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  2. ^ "Stephen Platt - History - UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu.
  3. ^ a b c "Stephen R. Platt". umass.edu. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
  4. ^ "Porter and Field Prize Winner History". Yale University. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  5. ^ "University of Massachusetts historian Stephen Platt receives prestigious Cundill Prize". The Republican. 1 January 2013.
  6. ^ "The Baillie Gifford Prize 2018 announces shortlist". Baillie Gifford Prize. 2 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
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