Benjamin Elman (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1980) is Professor of East Asian Studies and History with his primary department in East Asian Studies. His teaching and research fields include: 1) Chinese intellectual and cultural history, 1000-1900; 2) history of science in China, 1600-1930; 3) history of education in late imperial China; 4) Sino-Japanese cultural history, 1600-1850. His publications include: From Philosophy To Philology (1984, 1990, 2001); Classicism, Politics, and Kinship (1990); A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China (2000). He has recently completed two book projects: On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900 (2005), and A Cultural History of Modern Science in Late Imperial China (2006). A new work entitled Meritocracy and Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China (HUP) is forthcoming in fall 2013. He is also currently editing several volumes from conferences held at Princeton under the auspices of PIIRS, EAP, and the Mellon Foundation on "Science in Republican China," "Languages, Literacies, and Vernaculars in Early Modern East Asia," and "Medical Classics and Medical Philology in East Asian, 1400-1900." During his leave in AY14, Elman will visit archives in China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. His previous sabbatical leave in 2007-2008 was supported by a research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.” Since then he has continued working on a new project entitled "The Intellectual Impact of Late Imperial Chinese Classicism, Medicine, and Science in Tokugawa Japan, 1700-1850," under the auspices of summer research grants from the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation in Taiwan and the Mellon Foundation.
From Philosophy to Philology is an indispensable work on the intellectual life of China’s literati in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While there was not a scientific revolution in China, there was an intellectual one. The shock of the Manchu conquest and the collapse of the Ming dynasty in 1644 led to a rejection of the moral self-cultivation that dominated intellectual life under the Ming. China’s scholars, particularly in the Yangzi River Basin, sought to restore China’s greatness by recapturing the wisdom of the ancients from the Warring States period (403–221 B.C.) and the Former Han dynasty (202 B.C.–9 A.D.), much as Renaissance Europe rediscovered the Greeks and Romans. But in China scholars faced the daunting task of determining which of many editions of the Classics were the true originals and which were forged additions of later centuries.
The ensuing search for authentic texts led to the founding of academies and libraries, the compiling of bibliographies, the rise of printing of editions of the Classics and Histories and commentaries on their components, the study of ancient inscriptions, and a two-hundred-year effort to discover and discard forged texts. In the process rigorous standards of scholarly training were adopted, and scholarship became a full-time profession distinct from gentry farmers or imperial officials.
發表於2025-03-22
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六月第一周,讀艾爾曼《從理學到樸學》與《經學、政治和宗族》二書,寫得都非常好看。以知識社會學為方法來寫的書,其實都很豐富有趣。由於兩書名氣甚大,都知道這是知識社會學治漢學的經典,所以我這裏隻談一些細微的感受。 《從理學到樸學》,最精彩的是三四五章。研究瞭考...
評分本書內容雖好,但翻譯問題多多,這已是海外漢學係列的通病。有關引用文獻的部分更是重災區,漏譯、錯譯、引錯都有不少。直接看“參考書目”部分。 P204 埃剋(Tsen Yu-ho Ecke)《中國書法》 按:英文當為(Tseng Yu-ho Ecke),即曾佑和,現為美國夏威夷火努魯魯藝術學院顧問...
評分 評分這算是一本如雷貫耳的西方漢學著作瞭。它在討論一個自時代的水平麵上橫切齣來的用以縱觀思想與社會變化諸麵相的課題的時候,極鮮明地稟賦瞭漢學應有的全部優點和不足,用書中所討論的漢學和宋學做個不恰當的比喻,可以說這本書在義理之學上占據瞭一個製高點的位置(比如運用瞭...
評分六月第一周,讀艾爾曼《從理學到樸學》與《經學、政治和宗族》二書,寫得都非常好看。以知識社會學為方法來寫的書,其實都很豐富有趣。由於兩書名氣甚大,都知道這是知識社會學治漢學的經典,所以我這裏隻談一些細微的感受。 《從理學到樸學》,最精彩的是三四五章。研究瞭考...
圖書標籤: 思想史 海外中國研究 Elman 曆史 海外漢學 經學 社會史 清學
《何處是江南》以及《權力的毛細管作用》多多少少算是對這本書的迴應/批判性繼承?
評分精細,專業,大師。
評分從未想過魏源康有為等人與考證派韆絲萬縷的聯係。拋開所有學術話語,隻有一種感想,那時的人們想象這個世界的方式與今天是多麼不同啊。而一旦進瞭窠臼,就難跳齣瞭。
評分《何處是江南》以及《權力的毛細管作用》多多少少算是對這本書的迴應/批判性繼承?
評分從未想過魏源康有為等人與考證派韆絲萬縷的聯係。拋開所有學術話語,隻有一種感想,那時的人們想象這個世界的方式與今天是多麼不同啊。而一旦進瞭窠臼,就難跳齣瞭。
From Philosophy to Philology 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載