Benjamin Elman

Benjamin Elman

Professor Emeritus

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Field of Study

China

Research

Late imperial and modern Chinese intellectual and cultural history, 1000-1930; history of education in China, 1600-1900; history of science in imperial and modern China

Publications

  • From Philosophy To Philology: Social and Intellectual Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China. Cambridge: Harvard Univ., Council on East Asian Studies, 1984. Paperback edition 1990; Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Press, Chinese Edition, 1995. Revised and enlarged, second edition forthcoming from the UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series, 2001.
  • Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: the Ch’ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial ChinaBerkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Berkeley Prize in 1991; Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Press, Chinese Edition, 1998.
  • Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900. Co-editor with Alexander Woodside, University of British Columbia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Taipei: Southern Materials Publishing Co., paperback, 1996.
  • Classical Historiography for Chinese History: Bibliography and Exercises Published electronically on World Wide Web since 1996 and annually updated.
  • A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
  • Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Co-Editor with John Duncan and Herman Ooms. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series, forthcoming.

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Oriental Studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1980.