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Becoming yellow
In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to become Christianized. But by the end of the seventeenth century the category of whiteness was reserved for Europeans only. When and how did Asians become \"yellow\" in the Western imagination? Looking at the history of racial thinking, Becoming Yellow explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race.
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World Philology
Adluri reviews World Philology edited by Sheldon Pollock, Benjamin A. Elman and Ku-ming Kevin Chang.
Book Review
Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China
Bol reviews Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China by Benjamin A. Elman.
Book Review
On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900.(Brief Article)
43-3364 Q127 2004-59654 CIP Elman, Benjamin A. On their own terms: science in China, 1550-1900. Harvard, 2005. 567p bibl index afp ISBN 0674016858, $55.00
Book Review
Reviews of Books: From Philosophy to Philology
D. W. Y. Kwok reviews \"From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China,\" by Benjamin A. Elman.
Book Review
From Mobility to Stability
In Land and Lineage in China, Hilary Beattie focused on a single county, but one that happened to produce a disproportionately large number of officials.4 She argued that landholding was the most essential part of a long-term strategy for maintaining socioeconomic status at the local level. [...]she found that families in fact exhibited a great deal of continuity over centuries. More broadly conceived, for purposes of competing in civil service examinations, classical literacy required memorization of classical texts, mastery of \"Way learning,\" or Neo-Confucianism, and the ability to compose a form of parallel writing known as the eight-legged essay. Because one had to master the classical language in order to have any hope of succeeding in the examinations, more than ninety percent of male commoners, Elman shows, were \"linguistically, and thus culturally, excluded from the examination market\" (46-47, 132). [...]examiners increased standards.
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Science in China, 1600-1900: essays by Benjamin A. Elman
This book collects essays written by Elman (Princeton)-one of the leading authorities on the history of modern science in China-over the course of several decades, articles [Ho] describes as \"revised versions of [Elman's] lesser known essays on a common theme.\" The volume begins with a brief essay on the significance of phonology as an exact discipline in late imperial China.
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