Benjamin Elman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3830756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Elman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Elman |
| SIGNATURE | ELMAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Society in Motion
Late imperial Chinese were on the move from 1400 to 1900. They regularly traveled along the waterways and roads of their extensive empire, moving up from villages to counties, townships, prefectures, provinces, and the capital. Why? To take the dynasty-wide civil service examinations! Once licensed by a local qualifying examination, millions of candidates traveled far and wide to take higher examinations. They relied on the fairness of the testin…
Early Modern or Late Imperial Philology? The Crisis of Classical Learning in Eighteenth Century China
The discourses of classical scholars during the eighteenth century reinforced a shift from Song-Ming rationalism to a more skeptical and secular classical empiricism. By making precise scholarship the source of acceptable knowledge, Qing classicists contended that the legitimate reach of ancient ideals should be reevaluated through comparative delineation of the textual sources from which all such knowledge derived. This turn to empirically based…
Statecraft and Classical Learning
Statecraft and Classical Learning is devoted to the Rituals of Zhou, one of the ancient Chinese Classics. In addition to its canonical stature in classical learning, the massive text was of unique significance to the pre-modern statecraft of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam where it served as the classical paradigm for government structure and was often invoked in movements of political reform. The present volume, with contributions from twelve l…
Statecraft and classical learning
Introduction / Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern -- Part I. Early China -- The Zhouli as constitutional text / David Schaberg -- Offices of writing and reading in the Rituals of Zhou / Martin Kern -- The many Dukes of Zhou in early sources / Michael Nylan -- Centering the realm: Wang Mang, the Zhouli, and early Chinese statecraft / Michael Puett -- Zheng Xuan's commentary on the Zhouli / Andrew H. Plaks -- Part II. Medieval China -- The role of t…
Historical Truth, Historical Criticism, and Ideology
Leprosy in China
Collecting and Classifying
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Confucian Discourse and Chu Hsi's Ascendancy
Man and Nature in The Philosophical Thought of Wang Fu-chih
Ch'ing Dynasty Education Materials in the Department of Special Collections, Ucla
Vol. 10, No. 2 Late Imperial ChinaDecember 1989 CH'ING DYNASTY EDUCATION MATERIALS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, UCLA Benjamin Elman Two groups of rare materials of interest to Ch'ing social and intellectual historians are now available in the Han Yii-shan Collection in the Department of Special Collections as part of the UCLA University Research Library. The collection at UCLA enables scholars to get at materials that are for the mos…
The 1898 Reforms Revisited
Vol. 8, No. 1 Late Imperial ChinaJune 1987 THE 1898 REFORMS REVISITED A Review ofLuke S. K. Kwong's A Mosaic ofthe Hundred Days: Personalities, Politics, and Ideas of1898* Tang Zhijun and Benjamin Elman The 1898 Reform Movement has long been accepted as a fairly wellresearched event in late imperial Chinese history. Historians initially explored the writings of many of the participants in the "hundred days of reform" and frequently came to the co…
From Value to Fact
The emergence of phonology as a key discipline during the Ch'ing dynasty was closely tied to the triumph of precise empirical techniques of philological analysis, championed by participants in the evidential research movement, over Neo-Confucian moral philosophy. In phonology, such applications stressed the reconstruction of archaic finals through an examination of ancient rhyme schemes. In the late eighteenth century, significant steps were take…
From Value to Fact
The emergence of phonology as a key discipline during the Ch'ing dynasty was closely tied to the triumph of precise empirical techniques of philological analysis, championed by participants in the evidential research movement, over Neo-Confucian moral philosophy. In phonology, such applications stressed the reconstruction of archaic finals through an examination of ancient rhyme schemes. In the late eighteenth century, significant steps were take…
From Value to Fact
The emergence of phonology as a key discipline during the Ch'ing dynasty was closely tied to the triumph of precise empirical techniques of philological analysis, championed by participants in the evidential research movement, over Neo-Confucian moral philosophy. In phonology, such applications stressed the reconstruction of archaic finals through an examination of ancient rhyme schemes. In the late eighteenth century, significant steps were take…
The 1898 Reforms Revisited
Vol. 8, No. 1 Late Imperial ChinaJune 1987 THE 1898 REFORMS REVISITED A Review ofLuke S. K. Kwong's A Mosaic ofthe Hundred Days: Personalities, Politics, and Ideas of1898* Tang Zhijun and Benjamin Elman The 1898 Reform Movement has long been accepted as a fairly wellresearched event in late imperial Chinese history. Historians initially explored the writings of many of the participants in the "hundred days of reform" and frequently came to the co…
Ch'ing Dynasty Education Materials in the Department of Special Collections, Ucla
Vol. 10, No. 2 Late Imperial ChinaDecember 1989 CH'ING DYNASTY EDUCATION MATERIALS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, UCLA Benjamin Elman Two groups of rare materials of interest to Ch'ing social and intellectual historians are now available in the Han Yii-shan Collection in the Department of Special Collections as part of the UCLA University Research Library. The collection at UCLA enables scholars to get at materials that are for the mos…
Man and Nature in The Philosophical Thought of Wang Fu-chih
Confucian Discourse and Chu Hsi's Ascendancy
Collecting and Classifying
Benjamin Elman mm&+-xm+tmm&m%mmmftftmmxAmwfàmm%u, m-g^m mmmuwiîimMAmmmo stëiooo^*, j&&mmtomwwÈ-m#%mm Mfàfàfj&vmmmwiRmn.. nm*A8mto+=.ms>*im, m^mmm%%i% -«**£«. Witt (M@i$fn§lll!Êô<j3r&) «Sar$u»,asi*. #Jfflit#ittS a, tà»%mmm "fê«*n- mmitmmn^Mx^z^h *xmï.muMz-&
Statecraft and Classical Learning
Statecraft and Classical Learning is devoted to the Rituals of Zhou, one of the ancient Chinese Classics. In addition to its canonical stature in classical learning, the massive text was of unique significance to the pre-modern statecraft of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam where it served as the classical paradigm for government structure and was often invoked in movements of political reform. The present volume, with contributions from twelve l…
Statecraft and classical learning
Introduction / Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern -- Part I. Early China -- The Zhouli as constitutional text / David Schaberg -- Offices of writing and reading in the Rituals of Zhou / Martin Kern -- The many Dukes of Zhou in early sources / Michael Nylan -- Centering the realm: Wang Mang, the Zhouli, and early Chinese statecraft / Michael Puett -- Zheng Xuan's commentary on the Zhouli / Andrew H. Plaks -- Part II. Medieval China -- The role of t…
Historical Truth, Historical Criticism, and Ideology
Leprosy in China
Early Modern or Late Imperial Philology? The Crisis of Classical Learning in Eighteenth Century China
The discourses of classical scholars during the eighteenth century reinforced a shift from Song-Ming rationalism to a more skeptical and secular classical empiricism. By making precise scholarship the source of acceptable knowledge, Qing classicists contended that the legitimate reach of ancient ideals should be reevaluated through comparative delineation of the textual sources from which all such knowledge derived. This turn to empirically based…
A Society in Motion
Late imperial Chinese were on the move from 1400 to 1900. They regularly traveled along the waterways and roads of their extensive empire, moving up from villages to counties, townships, prefectures, provinces, and the capital. Why? To take the dynasty-wide civil service examinations! Once licensed by a local qualifying examination, millions of candidates traveled far and wide to take higher examinations. They relied on the fairness of the testin…
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