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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    • The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
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    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-15
    • Language: English
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    • A New England Runaway, the Chinese Communists, and the Birth of U.S. Marine Special Forces in World War II
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    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 2025-05-13
    • Language: English
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