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.
按:从网上搜到的几篇书评大都是从学理与方法的角度切入的,大概跟此书与众思想史不同的写作体例不无关系。不过我还是希望看到更实质的探讨,比如说如何理解艾尔曼所谓的乾嘉考据学共同体这一问题,在没有完备的学术机构的前现代社会,用现代学术共同体的眼光来审视其组织形态...
評分 評分一直以来都对汉学家比较感兴趣,但是也限于自身读的他们的书比较少,所以一直未敢对之进行评析。这次借着读完从图书管里借来的艾尔曼的两本书(另一本是《经学、政治和宗族 : 中华帝国晚期常州今文学派研究》)的机会,也大体的说一下我对于汉学家的看法。 从他们研究...
《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?
评分《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?
评分清代尤其是18世紀學術轉變的內部動因及整個學術機製的變革。很必讀的作品,看完感覺很多繪畫史上的轉變都好理解多瞭。
评分重讀加星。雖然有不足,但是在那個年代把這個框架做成這樣真是很不容易瞭。
评分重讀加星。雖然有不足,但是在那個年代把這個框架做成這樣真是很不容易瞭。
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