Introduction
Professor Benjamin A. Elman (1946–), who specializes in the history of education and of science in China as well as Chinese intellectual and cultural history, received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and has held professorships at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Princeton University. His more representative works include A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China, On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550–1900, A Cultural History of Modern Science in China, Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China, and Science in China, 1600–1900: Essays by Benjamin A. Elman.
This collection was donated to the Archives by Elman in 2023, totaling four boxes of more than eight hundred items. Contents include research notes, class materials, manuscripts, offprints, lecture notes and slides, official correspondence, and photographs from his time in Thailand. Some personal artifacts include articles presented by other scholars, works of his students, and a poem gifted by Professor Yu Ying-shih and his wife. These archival materials reflect Elman’s research career and academic networks. The Archives is working to have these materials collated in the near future, with a plan for digitization set for 2025.
This collection was donated to the Archives by Elman in 2023, totaling four boxes of more than eight hundred items. Contents include research notes, class materials, manuscripts, offprints, lecture notes and slides, official correspondence, and photographs from his time in Thailand. Some personal artifacts include articles presented by other scholars, works of his students, and a poem gifted by Professor Yu Ying-shih and his wife. These archival materials reflect Elman’s research career and academic networks. The Archives is working to have these materials collated in the near future, with a plan for digitization set for 2025.