Stephen Platt

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

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.

Writing career In 2007 he published Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese and Modern China.

Awards and honors 2004 Theron Rockwell Field Prize (Yale University) for dissertation Hunanese Nationalism and the Revival of Wang Fuzhi, 1839-1923 2012 Cundill Prize in History winner for Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize shortlist for Imperial Twilight