Stephen R. Platt
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Stephen R. Platt

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STEPHEN R. PLATT is an award-winning historian of China and the West whose newest book is The Raider: A New England Runaway, the Chinese Communists, and the Birth of U.S. Marine Special Forces in WWII (Knopf, 2025). His previous books include Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom (Knopf, 2012), which won the Cundill History Prize, and Imperial Twilight (Knopf, 2018), which was a finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and holds a PhD in History from Yale. He lives with his family in Northampton, MA.
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