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PhD History University of California, Berkeley
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Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Benjamin A. Elman is Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies Emeritus, Princeton University. His teaching and research fields include Chinese intellectual and cultural history, history of science and history of education in late imperial China.

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A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China (2000) (333)
From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China (1987) (283)
On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900 (2005) (198)
LinkedIn and recruitment: how profiles differ across occupations (2014) (146)
Political, Social, and Cultural Reproduction via Civil Service Examinations in Late Imperial China (1991) (140)
Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China (2013) (89)
Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China (1992) (72)
Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900 (1995) (69)
On Their Own Terms (2005) (63)
A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (2006) (56)
Naval Warfare and the Refraction of China's Self-Strengthening Reforms into Scientific and Technological Failure, 1865-1895 (2004) (51)
Rethinking Confucianism : past and present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam (2002) (51)
Imperial Politics and Confucian Societies in Late Imperial China (1989) (32)
Sinophiles and Sinophobes in Tokugawa Japan: Politics, Classicism, and Medicine During the Eighteenth Century 十八世紀在德川日本 "頌華者" 和 "貶華者" 的問題 – 以中醫及漢方為主 (2008) (31)
The Social Roles of Literati in Early to Mid-Ch'ing (2002) (29)
The Failures of Contemporary Chinese Intellectual History (2010) (27)
New Directions in the History of Modern Science in China (2007) (23)
One Classic and Two Classical Traditions: The Recovery and Transmission of a Lost Edition of the Analects (2009) (22)
Collecting and Classifying : Ming Dynasty Compendia and Encyclopedias (Leishu) (2007) (21)
Philosophy (I-Li) Versus Philology (K'Ao-Cheng): the Jen-Hsin Tao-Hsin Debate (1983) (21)
Rethinking East Asian languages, vernaculars, and literacies, 1000-1919 (2014) (19)
Ch'ing Dynasty "Schools" of Scholarship (1981) (16)
The Power of Position: Beijing University, Intellectuals and Chinese Political Culture 1898–1929. By Timothy B. Weston. [Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2004. xiv+325 pp. $60.00; £39.95. ISBN 0-520-23767-6.] (2004) (15)
"Where Is King Ch'Eng?" (1993) (15)
The Hsueh-hai T’ang and the Rise of New Text Scholarship in Canton (2016) (15)
Dodonaeus in Japan: Translation and the Scientific Mind in the Tokugawa Period (2003) (13)
Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s (2014) (13)
The Changing Role of Historical Knowledge in Southern Provincial Civil Examinations during the Ming and Ch'ing (1992) (12)
The 1898 Reforms Revisited: A Review of Luke S. K. Kwong's A Mosaic of the Hundred Days: Personalities, Politics, and Ideas of 1898 (2011) (12)
Statecraft and classical learning : the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian history (2010) (12)
Geographical Research in the Ming-Ch'ing Period (1981) (12)
Sinophiles and Sinophobes in Tokugawa Japan: Politics, Classicism, and Medicine During the Eighteenth Century (2008) (12)
Inclusive Leadership and Leader-Follower Relations: Concepts, Research, and Applications (2008) (11)
From Value to Fact: The Emergence of Phonology as a Precise Discipline in Late Imperial China (1982) (9)
Ming-Qing Border Defence, the Inward Turn of Chinese Cartography, and Qing Expansion in Central Asia in the Eighteenth Century (2007) (9)
The Civil Examination System in Late Imperial China, 1400–1900 (2013) (9)
Nietzsche and Buddhism (1983) (8)
What China and India once were : the pasts that may shape the global future (2018) (8)
Toward a History of Modern Science in Republican China (2014) (7)
The Investigation Of Things (Gewu 格物), Natural Studies (Gezhixue 格致學), And Evidental Studies (Kaozhengxue 考證學) Gewu In Late Imperial China, 1600-1800 (2010) (7)
The Linguistic Shaping of Thought: A Study in the Impact of Language on Thinking in China and the West . By Alfred Bloom. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum Associates, 1981. 106 pp. Appendix, Index. $16.95. (1983) (6)
Early modern or late imperial philology? The crisis of classical learning in eighteenth century China (2011) (5)
1. From Book to Edition: Philology in Ancient Greece (2015) (5)
Education in Sung China@@@Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage (1991) (5)
Statecraft and Classical Learning (2009) (5)
Scripture, Canon, and Commentary: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Exegesis . By John B. Henderson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. xii, 247 pp. $35.00. (1992) (5)
5. What Was Philology in Sanskrit (2015) (4)
5. The Jesuit Role as Experts in High Qing Cartography and Technology (2005) (4)
10. Early Modern or Late Imperial? The Crisis of Classical Philology in Eighteenth- Century China (2015) (4)
8. Mughal Philology and Rūmī’s Mathnavī (2015) (4)
12. “Enthusiasm Dwells Only in Specialization”: Classical Philology and Disciplinarity in Nineteenth- Century Germany (2015) (3)
3. Striving for Meaning: A Short History of Rabbinic Omnisignificance (2015) (3)
Jesuit Scientia and Natural Studies in Late Imperial China, 1600-18001 (2002) (3)
Historical Truth, Historical Criticism, and Ideology: Chinese Historiography and Historical Culture from a New Comparative Perspective (2010) (3)
The Relevance of Sung Learning in the Late Ch'ing: Wei Yuan and the Huang-ch'ao ching-shih wen-pien (2011) (3)
Late Traditional Chinese Civilization in Motion, 1400–1900 (2014) (3)
The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: A Society in Motion (2013) (3)
"Universal Science" Versus "Chinese Science": The Changing Identity of Natural Studies in China, 1850-1930 (2003) (3)
The 'Global' and the 'Local' in Early Modern and Modern East Asia (2017) (2)
4. Early Arabic Philologists: Poetry’s Friends or Foes? (2015) (2)
1 Introduction: Languages in East and South Asia, 1000–1919 (2014) (2)
THE UNRAVELLING OF NEO-CONFUCIANISM: THE LOWER YANGTZE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA (1980) (2)
13. The Intelligence of Philological Practice: On the Interpretation of Rilke’s Sonnet “O komm und geh” (2015) (2)
Wang Kuo-Wei and Lu Hsün: The Early Years (1979) (2)
Optical and Cognitive Illusions: The MIT Visualizing Cultures Controversy in Spring 2006 (2015) (2)
8 Unintended Consequences of Classical Literacies for the Early Modern Chinese Civil Examinations (2014) (2)
Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm (review) (2011) (2)
Chūgoku shisō jiten [Dictionary of Chinese Thought] . Edited by Hihara Toshikuni. Tokyo: Kenbun shuppan, 1984. 452 pp. List of Contributors, Index of Entries. Y6,800. (1985) (2)
Michael Lackner, Iwo Amelung, and Joachim Kurtz (eds.), New Terms for New Ideas: Western Knowledge and Lexical Change in Late Imperial China (2004) (1)
1 Rethinking the Sino-Japanese Medical Classics: Antiquarianism, Languages, and Medical Philology (2015) (1)
New Perspectives of the Jesuits and Science in China: 1600-1800 (2003) (1)
Scholarship and Politics: Chuang Ts'un-yü and the Rise of the Ch'ang-chou New Text School in Late Imperial China (2011) (1)
Yen Jo-Chü's Debt to Sung and Ming Scholarship (2011) (1)
Do Agentic Female Managers Receive Social Backlash from Workers? An Empirical Study (2018) (1)
Shaping the Ideal Child: Children and Their Primers in Late Imperial China. By LIMIN BAI. [Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2005. 311 pp. ISBN 962-996-114-8.] (2006) (1)
Global Science and Comparative History: Jesuits, Science, and Philology in China and Europe, 1550-1850 (2007) (1)
Early Modern Classicism and Late Imperial China (2007) (1)
2. The Bride of Mercury: Confessions of a ’Pataphilologist (2015) (1)
Is There Evidence of a Backlash Effect? An Empirical Investigation (2015) (1)
Book Review:The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West. Toby E. Huff (1994) (1)
Chinese science : an informal and irregular bulletin dedicated to the study of traditional Chinese science, technology, and medicine (1975) (1)
14. Philology or Linguistics? Transcontinental Responses (2015) (1)
11. The Story Of A Chapter: Changing Views Of The “Artificer’s Record” (“Kaogong ji” 考工記) And The Zhouli (2010) (1)
Transgender Inclusion in Online Job Application Forms at Forbes 450 Largest Companies (2019) (1)
11. The Politics of Philology in Japan: Ancient Texts, Language, and Japanese Identity (2015) (1)
1. The Jesuit Legacy (2006) (0)
Work ( s ) : " This Culture of Ours " : Intellectual Transitions in T ' ang and Sung China by Peter K . Bol Word , Image , and Deed in The Life of (2008) (0)
Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History . Edited by Dagmar Schäfer. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. vii + 394 pp., €133.00; $182.00. ISBN 978-90-04-21844-4 (2012) (0)
R. Kent Guy. Qing Governors and Their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644–1796. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2010. Pp. xii, 445. Cloth $80.00, paper $45.00. (2011) (0)
Science in China, 1600-1900 (2015) (0)
Books Received (1992) (0)
3. Sino-Jesuit Accommodations During the Seventeenth Century (2005) (0)
2009 History of Science Society Prize Citations (2010) (0)
The Records of Ming Scholars . By Tsung-hsi Huang. Edited and translated by Ching Julia with the collaboration of Chaoying Fang and others. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987. xxii, 336 pp. $27.00. (1988) (0)
Cultural transfers between Tokugawa Japan and Ch′ing China to 1800 (2016) (0)
A Jointly Regional-Global Approach to Rethinking Early Modern East Asian History (2017) (0)
5. From Textbooks to Darwin: Modern Science Arrives (2006) (0)
4. Classical Literacy in Late Imperial China (2013) (0)
4. The Limits of Western Learning in the Early Eighteenth Century (2005) (0)
2. The Late Ming Calendar Crisis and Gregorian Reform (2005) (0)
4. Science and the Protestant Mission (2006) (0)
Changing Referents: Learning Across Space and Time in China and the West. LEIGH JENCO. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 304 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-0-190-26382-9 (2016) (0)
List of Contributors (2011) (0)
2. Emperors of the Great Ming (1368– 1644) (2013) (0)
7. From Ming to Qing Policy Questions (2013) (0)
It Took a Scientist to Historicize One (2012) (0)
2. Ming to Qing: “Way Learning” Standards and the 8- Legged Essay (2013) (0)
1. Dates of Chinese Dynasties (2013) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Treason by the Book (Book) (2002) (0)
The Class of 1761: Examinations, State and Elite in Eighteenth Century China (review) (2005) (0)
6. Government Arsenals Spur New Technologies (2006) (0)
Book Review:The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology John Henderson (1985) (0)
11. Displacement of Traditional Chinese Science and Medicine in the Twentieth Century (2005) (0)
T he Failures o F Con T emporary C hinese in T elle CT ual h is T ory 1 (2010) (0)
Ping-yiChu, ed.,Zhongguoshi xinlun:Keji yuZhongguo shehui fence 中國史新論:科技與中國社會分冊 [New Perspectives on Chinese History: Science, Technology, and Chinese Society] (2017) (0)
Leprosy in China: A History (2010) (0)
2014-2015 Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture - Benjamin Elman (2015) (0)
7. The Displacement of Traditional Chinese Science and Medicine (2006) (0)
2. Recovering the Chinese Classics (2006) (0)
Introduction: An Overview (2017) (0)
The Discovery of Chinese Logic by Joachim Kurtz (review) (2014) (0)
Gongyang imaginary and looking to the confucian past for reform (2017) (0)
Yung Sik Kim.The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi, 1130–1200. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 235.) xii + 380 pp., figs., tables, app., bibl., index.Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2000. $30. (2002) (0)
7. Seeking the Truth and High Qing Mathematics (2005) (0)
Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann and Georges Métailié (eds.), Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China . Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2007. Pp. xiii+772. ISBN 978-90-04-16063-7. $149.00, $199.00 (hardback). (2009) (0)
List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables (2005) (0)
Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China by Hans van de Ven (review) (2015) (0)
Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 (review) (2011) (0)
9. The Construction of Modern Science in Late Qing China (2005) (0)
From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China . By Matthew W. Mosca. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 398. ISBN 10: 0804782245; ISBN 13: 978-0804782241. (2015) (0)
Chinese Encyclopedism and the Power of Knowledge (2019) (0)
Reviews of Books:Treason by the Book Jonathan D. Spence (2002) (0)
Antiquarianism, language, and medical philology : from early modern to modern Sino-Japanese medical discourses (2015) (0)
Ch'ing Dynasty Education Materials in the Department of Special Collections, UCLA (2011) (0)
6. Evidential Research and the Restoration of Ancient Learning (2005) (0)
3. The Rise of Imperial Chinese Manufacturing and Trade (2006) (0)
1. Ming Classification on the Eve of Jesuit Contact (2005) (0)
Examination Essays, Paratext, and Confucian Orthodoxy: Negotiating the Public and Private in Knowledge Authority in Early Seventeenth-Century China (2021) (0)
VI. Big Science: Classicism and Conquest (2018) (0)
reconsidering the 2006 MIT visualizing cultures controversy (2006) (0)
Hans van de Ven. Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 396 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-13738-6, $50.00 (cloth) (2015) (0)
3. Circulation of Ming- Qing Elites (2013) (0)
Japanese Scholarship and the Ming–Ch’ing Intellectual Transition (2016) (0)
3. Emperors of the Great Qing (1644– 1911) (2013) (0)
1. Ming Imperial Power, Cultural Politics, and Civil Examinations (2013) (0)
8. Protestants, Education, and Modern Science to 1880 (2005) (0)
8. Curricular Reform: From Qing to the Taipings (2013) (0)
10. Government Arsenals, Science, and Technology in China after 1860 (2005) (0)
Some Comparative Issues in the World History of Science and Technology: Jesuit Learning in Late Imperial China (2011) (0)
5. Anxiety, Dreams, and the Examination Life (2013) (0)
Barry C. Keenan, Imperial China's Last Classical Academies. Social Change in the Lower Yangzi, 1864-1911, Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Press, 1994 (1997) (0)
6. Limits of Dynastic Power (2013) (0)
Work ( s ) : Yang Tingyun , Confucian and Christian in Late Ming China : His Life and Thought . by Nicolas Standaert (2008) (0)
Bibliography of Chinese and Japanese Sources (2005) (0)

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