Stephen R Platt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5692615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen R Platt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen R |
| FAMILY NAME | Platt |
| SIGNATURE | PLATT S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
In Memory
In Memory Stephen R. Platt Jonathan Spence (1936–2021) On Christmas Day of 2021, our community lost Jonathan Spence, the founding editor of this journal and a historian of Late Imperial China whose books pulsed with life and emotion. His influence went well beyond his immediate field—he was one of the few historians of China to be elected president of the American Historical Association—and he was best known for character-centered histories built…
M ao H aijian . The Qing Empire and the Opium War
Mao Haijian’s 1995 study of the Opium War, Tianchao de bengkui, translated here as The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty, is a contemporary classic in modern Chinese history that, despite its enormous influence in the more than twenty years since its publication, has been previously unavailable to English-language readers. The volume at hand represents a welcome effort to bring this work into the Western scholarly mainstream. Tianchao de bengkui w…
Introduction
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John Dewey in China
Provincial Patriots
From the Taiping Rebellion in the mid-nineteenth century to the Chinese Communist movement in the twentieth, no province in China gave rise to as many reformers, military officers, and revolutionaries as did Hunan. Stephen Platt offers the first comprehensive study of why Hunan wielded such disproportionate influence. Covering a span of eight decades, this book portrays three generations of Hunanese scholar-activists who held their provincial loy…
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Provincial Patriots
From the Taiping Rebellion in the mid-nineteenth century to the Chinese Communist movement in the twentieth, no province in China gave rise to as many reformers, military officers, and revolutionaries as did Hunan. Stephen Platt offers the first comprehensive study of why Hunan wielded such disproportionate influence. Covering a span of eight decades, this book portrays three generations of Hunanese scholar-activists who held their provincial loy…
Introduction
1-8
John Dewey in China
M ao H aijian . The Qing Empire and the Opium War
Mao Haijian’s 1995 study of the Opium War, Tianchao de bengkui, translated here as The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty, is a contemporary classic in modern Chinese history that, despite its enormous influence in the more than twenty years since its publication, has been previously unavailable to English-language readers. The volume at hand represents a welcome effort to bring this work into the Western scholarly mainstream. Tianchao de bengkui w…
In Memory
In Memory Stephen R. Platt Jonathan Spence (1936–2021) On Christmas Day of 2021, our community lost Jonathan Spence, the founding editor of this journal and a historian of Late Imperial China whose books pulsed with life and emotion. His influence went well beyond his immediate field—he was one of the few historians of China to be elected president of the American Historical Association—and he was best known for character-centered histories built…
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