Description: The "Global" and the "Local" in Early Modern and Modern East Asia offers inquiries by scholars in three different institutions (Princeton, Fudan, and Tokyo Universities) into the philosophies and methodologies of global history and how it relates to local stories.
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Benjamin Elman, Ph.D. (1980), Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University, has published numerous studies, including, Classicism, Examinations, and Cultural History (2010), A Cultural Hisetory of Modern Science in China (2009) and Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (5th edition, 2016).
Chao-Hui Jenny Liu, Ph.D. (2006), Lecturer of Chinese Studies and Coordinator of the East Asian Program at Princeton University, has worked at The Met, Smithsonian, and New York University and published studies on rituals, figurines, murals, art, and tombs in the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE).