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PODCASTS
Qian Mu Lectures at Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 3, 2017
Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China (New Books in East Asian Studies, March 2014)
Commerce and Classics: Sino-Japanese Exchanges in the Eighteenth Century (at UCLA, December 12, 2007)
The Cornell University 2015 Hu Shi Lecture -- The "Rise of Japan" and the "Fall of China" after 1895
The 2011 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures #1 -- The Great Reversal: The "Rise of Japan" and the "Fall of China" after 1895 as Historical Fables (at Harvard University sponsored by the Fairbank Center)
The 2011 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures #2 -- Philologists as Rogues: Puzzles Concerning the Japanese Recovery of Huang Kan's Subcommentary (at Harvard University sponsored by the Fairbank Center)
The 2011 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures #3 -- Medical Philology in the "Second Rome": Ancient Learning & Attack on "Traditional Chinese Medicine" (at Harvard University sponsored by the Fairbank Center)
National Consortium for Teaching About Asia: "Rethinking the Image of China and Japan in Global History, 1600-1900" (March 10, 2012, at Princeton University)
Rethinking the Role of China in Global History, 1600-1900" (1) at Fudan University (June 26, 2016)
Rethinking the Role of China in Global History, 1600-1900" (2) at Fudan University (June 26, 2016)
Rethinking the Role of China in Global History, 1600-1900" (3) at Fudan University (June 26, 2016)
Rethinking the Role of China in Global History, 1600-1900" (6) at Fudan University (June 26, 2016)
Rethinking the Role of China in Global History, 1600-1900" (7) at Fudan University (June 26, 2016)
Rogue Philologists: the Puzzling Case of the Huang Kan Commentary in Tokugawa Japan and Qing China (Presented at IAS, Princeton, 11-18-16)
Ricci Institute Lecture: Traduttore, traditore -- Constructing Science Via Translation in China, 1600-1900 (Revised for University of San Francisco, March 6, 2014)
Sinophiles and Sinophobes: Politics, Classicism, and Medicine in Tokugawa Japan (at Barnard College)
Traduttore, traditore: Constructing Science Via Translation in China, 1600-1900 (at Loyola Marymount University)
Traduttore, traditore: Constructing Science Via Translation in China, 1600-1900 -- Questions and Replies (at Loyola Marymount University)
Why was Mr. Science in China Called Kexue? (at Rutgers University)
Chinese Lecture -- Why was Mr. Science in China Called Kexue? (at Fudan University)

BOOKS and ARTICLES
China in the Social Science Curriculum
China and the World History of Science
The Chinese Prize Essay Contest and the Late Qing Promotion of Modern Science
Civil Service Examinations
Classical Reasoning in Late Imperial Chinese Civil Examination Essays
Classical Scholarship and Intellectual Debates, 1800-1864
Classicism, Politics, and Kinship (California Digital Library)
Cultural Transfers Between Qing and Tokugawa - Cambridge History of China
Communication, Technology, and Authoritarian Regimes
Comparing and Classifying: Ming Dynasty Compendia and Encyclopedias (Leishu)
Confucianism and Modernization
Criticism as Philosophy: Conceptual Change In Ch'ing Dynasty Evidential Research
Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China
Early Modern Classicism and Late Imperial China
EASMT - Global Science and Comparative History
Education and Society in Late Imperial China
Eight-Legged Essay
Examination System, 1800-1905
The Emergence of Phonology
Failures of Contemporary Chinese Intellectual History
Formation of Dao Learning as Early Ming Imperial Ideology
From Pre-modern Chinese Natural Studies to Modern Science in China
Global Capitalism and Local Artistic Taste
Historicization of Classical Learning in Ming-Qing
Historiography of HOS in Modern China
Imperial Politics and Confucian Societies
"Introduction" to Science and Technology in Modern China by Jing Tsu and Benjamin Elman
Investigation of Things - Natural Studies - Evidential Studies
Japanese Scholarship on the Ming-Qing Transition
Jesuit Role as Experts in High Qing
Jesuit Scientia in Late Imperial China
Kuhn - Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Languages -- Rethinking East Asian Languages - Intro
Languages -- Rethinking Languages in East Asia - Unintended Consequences
Ming-Qing Border Defense and the Inward Turn of Chinese Cartography
Naval Warfare and the Refraction of China's Self-Strengthening Reforms
New Directions in the History of Modern Science in China
Nietzsche and Buddhism
Nietzsche and Buddhism--Errata
On Their Own Terms - Science in China 1550-1900 (2005)
One Classic and Two Classical Traditions
Optical and Cognitive Illusions
Peace Corps Report Summer 1971, with pictures by Robert W. Denniston, Peace Corps Thailand, Group #25: Malaria Eradication Project.
Philology and Its Enemies
Philosophy Versus Philology
PHILOSOPHY (I-LI) VERSUS PHILOLOGY (K'AO-CHENG)--THE JEN-HSIN TAO-HSIN DEBATE
Preface for the Revised Zhuang Lineage Genealogy
Problem of Modern Science in China
Qing Dynasty Schools of Scholarship
Qing Learning in Tokugawa Japan
Reproduction via Civil Service Examinations
Rethinking Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism
Rethinking the Twentieth Century Denigration of Chinese Science in the Twenty-First Century
Rise of Japan and Fall of China after 1895
Science History in China
Sinophiles and Sinophobes in Tokugawa Japan: Politics, Classicism, and Medicine During the Eighteenth Century
Teaching Through the MIT Visualizing Cultures Controversy
Toward a History of Modern Science in Republican China
Unintended Consequences of Classical Literacies for the Early Modern Chinese Civil Examinations
The Unraveling of Neo-Confucianism: From Philosophy to Philology In Late Imperial China
Wang Kuo-wei and Lu Hsun - The Early Years

REVIEWS
Bailey -- Review of Education and Society in Late Imperial China
Bray Review of On Their Own Terms and A Cultural History of Modern Science in China
Chung Review of On Their Own Terms and A Cultural History of Modern Science in China
Education in Song China--A Review
Eighteenth Century Review of On Their Own Terms
Elman Review of Bai Limin - Shaping the Ideal Child - Children and Their Primers in Late Imperial China
Elman Review of Bray et al Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China
Elman Review of Dodonaeus in Japan
Elman Review of Guy, Qing Governors and Their Provinces
Elman Review of Historical Truth, Historical Criticism, and Ideology
Elman Review of Huff, Islam China and the West
Elman Review of Iona D. Man-Cheong The Class of 1776
Elman Review: "It took a scientist to historicize one!"
Elman Review of Kurtz - Chinese Logic
Elman Review of Leung, Leprosy in China
Elman Review of Ruan Yuan by Betty Wei
Elman Review of Schaefer - Cultures of Knowledge - Technology in Chinese HIstory
Elman Review of Scripture Canon and Commentary
Elman Review of Spence Treason by the Book
Elman Review of The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology
Elman Review of The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit
Elman Review of The Linguistic Shaping of Thought
Elman Review of The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi
Elman Review of Weston - Power of Position - Beida
Elman Review of Yang Tingyun -- Confucian and Christian in Late Ming China
Gal and Zheng -- New Terms of Accommodation (Review of On Their Own Terms)
ISIS Review of A Cultural History of Modern Science in China
ISIS Review of "On Their Own Terms"
Jonathan Spence Review -- Turbulent Empire
Perdue Review of A Cultural History of Modern Science in China
Reply to a Recent Review
Review of Rethinking Confucianism -- Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
Review of Rethinking Confucianism -- China Review International
Review of Bol This Culture of Ours and Egan Life of Su Shi
Science Review of On Their Own Terms
Smith -- Review of Education and Society in Late Imperial China
Yoshida Jun -- Review of From Philosophy to Philology
Zarrow -- Review of Cultural History of Civil Exams

ARTICLES IN CHINESE
Elman -- Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Modern History Institute, Interview on Chinese History and Historiography
Elman -- Article on Sino-Japanese War
Elman -- CASS Newspaper Interview December 29, 2009
Elman -- CASS Newspaper Interview February 9, 2010
Elman -- Cultural Hermeneutics Vs. Public Sphere
Elman -- Duke of Zhou Serves King Cheng
Elman -- Global Commerce - Confucian Classics - Taste
Elman -- Habermas-Gadamer Debate - Public Sphere-Civil Society
Elman -- On Civil Examinations and Classicism
Elman -- On Cultural Reproduction
Elman -- Article on Evidential Studies -- A Response
Elman -- Literati Role in Qing China (Chinese version of Cambridge History of China article)
Elman -- Kim Chong-hui
Elman -- On Macartney article
Elman -- Nanfang zhoumo Interview January 2010
Elman -- On Philology -- Early Modern Or late Imperial? article
Elman -- On Rethinking China in the Early Modern World article
Elman -- Shanghai Newspaper Interview July 2008
Elman -- Tokugawa Rediscovery of Huang Kan’s “Preface” and Analects Subcommentary
Lei Yi -- Review of From Philosophy to Philology (21st Century Hong Kong)
LIFE MAGAZINE Interview April 2008 -- Tupo shixue weiji
Money Talks -- Commerce Classics and Taste in Late Imperial China
Qianlong wanqi Heshen - Zhuang Cunyu guanxi de chongxin kaocha (Reexamination of the relationship between Heshen and Zhuang Cunyu in the late Qianlong period), Fudan xuebao (Social Sciences) 3 (2009): 59-63, 140.
21st Century 1998 -- Rejoinder for the Hevia Debate
學海堂與今文經學在廣東的興起
Yun Jing yu shijiu shiji zhengzhi xue yuyan (Yun Jing and 19th Century Political Discourse) -- Hanxue yanjiu No 3 -- 1998;
艾尔曼: Chinese version of "From Premodern Chinese Natural Studies to Modern Science in China"
艾尔曼:中国文化史的新方向: 一些有待讨论的意见
艾尔曼:中华帝国后期的科举制度