Science in China, 1600–1900 (ePub)

Benjamin A Elman is Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies and professor of East Asian Studies and History with his primary department in East Asian Studies at Princeton University, USA. His teaching and research fields include: Chinese intellectual and cultural history, 1000–1900; history of science in China, 1600–1930; history of education in late imperial China; and, Sino-Japanese cultural history, 1600–1850. He received his Ph.D. in Oriental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania (in 1980) and came to Princeton in 2002 from the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1999 to 2001, he was the Mellon Visiting Professor in Traditional Chinese Civilization at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, New Jersey). His previous 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); On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550–1900 (2005); and, A Cultural History of Modern Science in Late Imperial China (2006). In 2011, Professor Elman was selected as one of the three winners of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award.

About the Editor

Ho Yi Kai is Manager and Assistant Editor-in-Chief of World Century Publishing Corp., and Senior Editor at World Scientific Publishing Co. His teaching and research interests include Chinese Classical Literature, Chinese Philology, Bibliology and Overseas Chinese. He received his BA from Peking University, and MA and PhD from Nanjing University, China. He was a Teaching Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Research Associate at the Chinese Heritage Centre at the university. He published Studies on the Pictorial Biography of Qing Dynasty Scholars (2010) in Chinese.