Benjamin Elman

Benjamin Elman, Mellon Visiting Professor (1999-2001) in the School of Historical Studies, is currently Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University. A member of both the Department of East Asian Studies and the Department of History at Princeton University, Elman’s teaching and research interests include: Chinese intellectual and cultural history, 1000-1900; the history of science in China, 1600-1930; the history of education in late imperial China; and Sino-Japanese cultural history, 1600-1850. Currently, he is working on a project entitled "The Intellectual Impact of Late Imperial Chinese Classicism, Medicine, and Science in Tokugawa Japan, 1700-1850,” and editing several volumes from conferences held at Princeton under the auspices of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the East Asian Studies Program, and the Mellon Foundation.