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  • Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China

    by Benjamin A. Elman ...
    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 ... Read more

    $62.69 CAD

  • Science In China, 1600-1900: Essays By Benjamin A Elman

    by Benjamin A Elman, Yi Kai Ho ...
    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 ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • What China and India Once Were

    The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future

    Edited by Benjamin Elman, Sheldon Pollock ...
    In the early years of the twenty-first century, China and India have emerged as world powers. In many respects, this is a return to the historical norm for both countries. For much of the early modern period, China and India were global leaders in a variety of ways. In this book, prominent scholars seek to understand modern China and India through an unprecedented comparative analysis of their ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • What China and India Once Were

    The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future

    Edited by Benjamin Elman, Sheldon Pollock ...
    In the early years of the twenty-first century, China and India have emerged as world powers. In many respects, this is a return to the historical norm for both countries. For much of the early modern period, China and India were global leaders in a variety of ways. In this book, prominent scholars seek to understand modern China and India through an unprecedented comparative analysis of their ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900

    Edited by Benjamin A. Elman, Alexander Woodside ...
    Series Book 19 - Studies on China
    This comprehensive volume integrates the history of late imperial China with the history of education over three centuries, revealing the significance of education in Chinese social, political, and intellectual life. A collaboration between social and intellectual historians, these fifteen essays provide the most wide-ranging study in English on China's education in the centuries before the modern ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Contending with Antisemitism in a Rapidly Changing Political Climate

    by Bernard Harrison, Gerald M. Steinberg, Dina Porat, Miriam F. Elman, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Jan Grabowski, Marc Grimm, Esther Webman, Dave Rich, Lesley Klaff, Balázs Berkovitz, Mark Weitzman, Kenneth Waltzer, Linda Maizels, Daniel Dayan, Dana Ionescu, Philip Spencer, Mike Whine, János Gadó ...
    Series series Studies in Antisemitism
    Today's highly fraught historical moment brings a resurgence of antisemitism. Antisemitic incidents of all kinds are on the rise across the world, including hate speech, the spread of neo-Nazi graffiti and other forms of verbal and written threats, the defacement of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, and acts of murderous terror.Contending with Antisemitism in a Rapidly Changing Political Climate ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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