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  | | Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China by Benjamin A. Elman Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2013 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-72495-2, ISBN: 0-674-72495-X "During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service in fostering the world's first professi ..." |
 | | A Cultural History of Modern Science in China(6th Edition) (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) by Benjamin A. Elman, Ba Elman Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2009 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-03042-8, ISBN: 0-674-03042-7 " Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in 2005 of Benjamin Elman's masterwork, On Their Own Terms. Now Elman has retold the story of the Jesuit impact on late imperial China, circa 1600-1800, and the Protestant era in early modern China from the 1840s to 1900 in a concise and acce ..." |
 | | World Philology by Sheldon Pollock, Benjamin A. Elman Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2015 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-05286-4, ISBN: 0-674-05286-2 "Philology—the discipline of making sense of texts—is enjoying a renaissance within academia after decades of neglect. World Philology charts the evolution of philology across the many cultures and historical time periods in which it has been practiced, and demonstrates how this branch of knowledge, like philosophy and mathematics, is an essential component of human understanding. Every civilization has developed ways of interpreting th ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(4th Edition) A History of the World: From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Fourth Edition) (Vol. One-Volume) by Robert Tignor, Dr Peter Brown, Jeremy Adelman, Benjamin A. Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Brent D. Shaw, Xinru Liu, Holly Pittman, Michael Tsin, Associate Professor Suzanne Marchand, Gyan Prakash, Stephen Aron, Suzanne L. Marchand Paperback, 1,008 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92207-3, ISBN: 0-393-92207-3 "A truly global approach to world history built around significant world history stories. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others. The Fourth Edi ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(3rd Edition) A History of the World: Beginnings to 1200 (Third Edition) (Vol. A) by Robert Tignor, Peter Brown, Jeremy Adelman, Benjamin A. Elman, Xinru Liu, Holly Pittman, Brent Shaw Paperback, 409 Pages, Published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-93495-3, ISBN: 0-393-93495-0 "The most global approach to world history, now more streamlined and accessible. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to 19th-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and more. In the Third Edition, the text ..." |
 | | Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900 (Studies on China) by Benjamin A. Elman, Alexander Woodside Hardcover, 592 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-08234-2, ISBN: 0-520-08234-6 |
 | | Classicism, Politics, and Kinship(1st Edition) The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China by Benjamin A. Elman, Hartmut O. Rotermund Hardcover, 442 Pages, Published 1990 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-06673-1, ISBN: 0-520-06673-1 |
 | | On Their Own Terms Science in China, 1550-1900 by Benjamin A. Elman Hardcover, 606 Pages, Published 2005 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-01685-9, ISBN: 0-674-01685-8 |
 | | On Their Own Terms Science in China, 1550-1900 by Benjamin A. Elman 605 Pages, Published 2009 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-03647-5, ISBN: 0-674-03647-6 "Guo Shuanglin, Xichao jiaodang xia de wan Qing dilixue (Western currents in late Qing geography). Beijing: ... of Western learning in China from the compilation of the calendrical treatise of the Ming History), in Liu Dun, ed., Keshi xinchuan. ... de Yijing yanjiu he Kangxi shidai de Xixue Zhongyuan shuo” (Bou- vet's research on the Change Classic and the theory that Western ... “'Zili' jingshen yu lisuan huodong: Kang-Qian zhi ji ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(4th Edition) A History of the World: From 1000 CE to the Present (Fourth Edition) (Vol. 2) by Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Stephen Aron, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Michael Tsin Paperback, 624 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company Abridged ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92209-7, ISBN: 0-393-92209-X "A truly global approach to world history built around significant world history stories. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others. The Fourth Edi ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(4th Edition) A History of the World: From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Fourth Edition) (Vol. One-Volume) by Robert Tignor, Dr Peter Brown, Jeremy Adelman, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Aron, Brent Shaw, Xinru Liu, Associate Professor Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Michael Tsin, Stephen Kotkin, Gyan Prakash Paperback, 1,008 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-12376-0, ISBN: 0-393-12376-6 "A truly global approach to world history built around significant world history stories. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others. The Fourth Edi ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(4th Edition) A History of the World: 600 to1850 (Fourth Edition) (Vol. B) by Robert L. Tignor, Peter Brown, Jeremy Adelman, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Stephen Aron, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Michael Tsin Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92211-0, ISBN: 0-393-92211-1 "A truly global approach to world history built around significant world history stories. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others. The Fourth Edi ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(2nd Edition) A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Second Edition) (Vol. 1: Beginnings Through the Fifteenth Century) by Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Xinru Liu, Robert Tignor, Holly Pittman, Brent Shaw, Robert L. Tignor, Stephen Aron, Stephen Kotkin, Suzanne L. Marchand, Gyan Prakash Paperback, 545 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92548-7, ISBN: 0-393-92548-X "True to its title, this uniquely integrated text highlights the stories and themes in world history that tied cultures and regions together, and in some cases, drove them apart.In this second edition, the book's non-Eurocentric approach continues with expansions of the original eleven world history "turning point" stories from the modern period to include ten more "turning point" stories from the earlier periods of world history. ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(2nd Edition) A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Second Edition) (Vol. A: Beginnings to 1200) by Peter Brown, Jeremy Adelman, Robert L. Tignor, Benjamin Elman, Xinru Liu, Holly Pittman, Brent Shaw Paperback, 506 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-93208-9, ISBN: 0-393-93208-7 "True to its title, this uniquely integrated text highlights the stories and themes in world history that tied cultures and regions together, and in some cases, drove them apart. In this second edition, the book's non-Eurocentric approach continues with expansions of the original eleven world history "turning point" stories from the modern period to include ten more "turning point" stories from the earlier periods of world history. From ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(3rd Edition) A History of the World: From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Third Edition) (Vol. One-Volume) by Robert L. Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Michael Tsin, Adelman Tignor Hardcover, 843 Pages, Published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-93492-2, ISBN: 0-393-93492-6 "The most global approach to world history, now more streamlined and accessible. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to 19th-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and more. In the Third Edition, the text ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(3rd Edition) A History of the World: 600 to 1850 (Third Edition) (Vol. B) by Robert L. Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Brent Shaw, Michael Tsin, Gyan Prakash Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-93496-0, ISBN: 0-393-93496-9 "The most global approach to world history, now more streamlined and accessible. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to 19th-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and more. In the Third Edition, the text ..." |
 | | A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China by Benjamin A. Elman 889 Pages, Published 2000 by Univ Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-92147-4, ISBN: 0-520-92147-X "To that point, individuals such as Ai Nan-ying, Lii Liu-liang, and Tai Ming-shih had rescued the eight-legged essay grid from its dismal ... Fang Pao brought that pedigree into the Ch'ing imperial court and gave the essay an encomium that balanced and challenged the ... Guy notes, however, that 98 of 122 Ch'ing authors held the chin-shih degree and that Fang's choice of Ch'ing essays did reflect those ..." |
 | | A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China(First Edition) (Philip E. Lilienthal Book) by Benjamin A. Elman, Ba Elman Hardcover, 847 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-21509-2, ISBN: 0-520-21509-5 |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(4th Edition) A History of the World: Beginnings Through the Fifteenth Century (Fourth Edition) (Vol. 1) by Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Stephen Aron, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Michael Tsin Paperback, 552 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92208-0, ISBN: 0-393-92208-1 "A truly global approach to world history built around significant world history stories. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others. The Fourth Edi ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart A History of the World: From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Fourth High School Edition) (Vol. One-Volume) by Robert Tignor, Dr Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Kotkin, Brent Shaw, Michael Tsin, Associate Professor Suzanne Marchand, Xinru Liu, Holly Pittman, Gyan Prakash, Stephen Aron Hardcover, 1,008 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92333-9, ISBN: 0-393-92333-9 "A truly global approach to world history built around significant world history stories, now with a NASTA compliant high school binding.Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation ..." |
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