Benjamin Elman

Benjamin Elman is Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University. He specializes in the intellectual history, history of education, and history of science of late Imperial China.

Elman earned his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, and taught at UCLA for more than fifteen years before moving to Princeton. As of 2014, he is currently the chair of the East Asian Studies department at Princeton.

Selected Publications

• From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China
• Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: the Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China
• A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China
• On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900
• A Cultural History of Modern Science in China

References

• Robert Tignor, Benjamin Elman, et al, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, vol B, Fourth Edition, W.W. Norton & Co (2014), xlvii.

External Links

• Official Faculty Webpage at Princeton.edu
• Links to podcasts, articles, and reviews by Elman
• Classical Historiography for Chinese History, a bibliography and teaching resource website created & run by Elman