Stephen R. Platt

'In the more liberal early 2000s some of these critics found huge audiences in China, but their range and reach have been sharply curtailed under Xi.' Stephen Platt on the ‘counter-historians’ battling the Party’s version of events #Echobox=1709137921" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">the-tls.co.uk/articles/spark…

This just out: @stephenrplatt in @TheTLS on Sparks: "Johnson is doing here what he does best: patient long-form journalism based on years of first-hand research and interviews. The result is a book that is bold, necessary and morally urgent." the-tls.co.uk/articles/spark…

“Now that you have come all this way,” he asked, “what secret elixir for long life can you provide me?” @stephenrplatt wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

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@TJStiles_Author Thanks!

@TJStiles_Author Thanks for posting this! I hadn't known about this organization. Just signed up, looking forward to reading the newsletters.

@sarbajitghatak Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

@stephenrplatt Grateful to you for writing Imperial Twilight! It was deeply engrossing & illuminating. Always used to wonder what the Opium War was all about. This book certainly answers that & much more.Looking forward to reading your other works. Thank you!

@JohnDelury This is beautiful, John.

Spence was not just a historian, he was an artist, and his books will be read forever because they are works of art. That does not mean he made things up-- his artistry was bounded by things as they really happened, just as a sculptor can only carve the block before her.

@historysjm Thank you! And Merry Christmas.

@TrueConnallyite Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

@stephenrplatt the last paragraph in your book on the Taiping is deeply haunting and beautiful. Thank you for your research. What a tremendous tragic tale. Hard not to see a great missed opportunity in the Taiping.

@ben_niu Thank you! Very glad you enjoyed it.

@stephenrplatt I just finished reading Imperial Twilight. It is a fantastic book and I have thoroughly enjoyed it! It is also very eye opening, because it offered so many details that many don't appear on history books in Chinese. Thank you very much!

Congratulations to NCUSCR #PIPfellow @stephenrplatt on making his @Jeopardy debut last week – though not as a contestant! Learn more about Dr. Platt's book, "Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age" (@AAKnopf, 2018): ncuscr.news/platt-book

@jcoste Thanks! No idea if new hardcovers of Autumn are still sold but should be plenty of used ones out there. Hope you like it.

Want the the history behind the headline? Check out "Imperial Twilight" by Stephen Platt—featured in this @nytimes piece! nytimes.com/2019/03/27/us/…

@PeterLoftus44 Thanks for sending this!

Extraordinary glimpses into how hard it is to report from China: kidnapped assistants, files moving around your laptop, being trailed for 1600km by 9 cars, being escorted out of a town for reporting on a famous pig. This @fccchina survey is sobering reading.

This is a fantastic program. It really helped shape my career and introduced me to some of my favorite people in the China field.

@ArmchairQBacks They're both stand-alone books, so you can read them in either direction. Maybe start with Twilight since it comes first chronologically. Hope you enjoy!

@stephenrplatt Would you suggest reading IMPERIAL TWILIGHT before AUTUMN IN THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM?

Deeds and ghosts | @GavJacobson considers the swashbuckling, self-regarding attitudes of Britain to China in the nineteenth century #Echobox=1546450986" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…

@cpgrabow Glad you're enjoying the book! That's actually not a typo -- a snow was a fairly common European ship of the time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_(shi…

@stephenrplatt enjoying Imperial Twilight but I’m guessing that here on page 5 you meant to write “scow” instead of “snow”? Apologies if others have already flagged this.