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Product Description Distinguished historian Benjamin A Elman's collective volume on the history of Science in imperial China, brings together over 30 years of historical literature on the subject. With updates to the literature and new material including transcripts of podcasts and translated interview articles, Science in China takes the reader on a journey starting in the early 17th Century with the missionary efforts of the Jesuits in China, and ending with the Protestant missions in the 19th Century. These two milestone encounters brought Western sciences to local Chinese scholars with great success in shaping modern Chinese science. Elman studies the interaction between Western and Chinese sciences through philological research and evidence, and treats the two encounters not as separate events but as a continuum of creative exchange of scientific knowledge and discourse. Readership: Undergraduates and researchers in history of science, Chinese history, history of Chinese science, philology, and history of East Asia and East Asian science. About the Author About the Author Benjamin A Elman is Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies and professor of East Asian Studies and History with his primary department in East Asian Studies at Princeton University, USA. His teaching and research fields include: Chinese intellectual and cultural history, 1000–1900; history of science in China, 1600 –1930; history of education in late imperial China; and, Sino-Japanese cultural history, 1600 –1850. He received his Ph.D. in Oriental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania (in 1980) and came to Princeton in 2002 from the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1999 to 2001, he was the Mellon Visiting Professor in Traditional Chinese Civilization at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, New Jersey). His previous publications include: From Philosophy to Philology (1984, 1990, 2001); Classicism, Politics, and Kinship (1990); A Cultural History of Civil Examination