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Benjamin Elman
Brill

Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000-1919

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AuthorBenjamin Elman
PublisherBrill
PublishedSep 24 2014
Book FormatHardcover
ISBN-139789004277595
Dimensions9.4 X 6.4 X 0.9 inches
Weight 1.4 pounds
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CategoriesLiterary Criticism > General
LanguageEnglish

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Book Description

The authors consider new views of the classical versus vernacular dichotomy that are especially central to the new historiography of China and East Asian languages. Based on recent debates initiated by Sheldon Pollock's findings for South Asia, we examine alternative frameworks for understanding East Asian languages between 1000 and 1919. Using new sources, making new connections, and re-examining old assumptions, we have asked whether and why East and SE Asian languages (e.g., Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, Jurchen, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese) should be analysed in light of a Eurocentric dichotomy of Latin versus vernaculars. This discussion has encouraged us to explore whether European modernity is an appropriate standard at all for East Asia. Individually and collectively, we have sought to establish linkages between societies without making a priori assumptions about the countries' internal structures or the genealogy of their connections.
Contributors include: Benjamin Elman; Peter Kornicki; John Phan; Wei Shang; Haruo Shirane; M�rten S�derblom Saarela; Daniel Trambaiolo; Atsuko Ueda; Sixiang Wang.

Author Bio

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) appeared in Fall 2013.

I also edited several volumes from conferences held at Princeton under the auspices of PIIRS, EAP, and the Mellon Foundation on "Science in Republican China" (Brill 2014), "Languages, Literacies, and Vernaculars in Early Modern East Asia" (Brill 2015), and "Medical Classics and Medical Philology in East Asian, 1400-1900" (Brill 2016).

During my leave, I visited archives in China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.

For my leave in AY17, I have 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 my Mellon Foundation Career Service Award (2011-2017).

Source: Princeton University Department of East Asian Studies

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