Professor Elman is Professor of East Asian Studies and History with his primary department in East Asian Studies. His teaching and research fields include: 1) Chinese intellectual and cultural history, 1000 – 1900; 2) history of science in China, 1600 – 1930; 3) history of education in late imperial China; 4) Sino-Japanese cultural history, 1600 – 1850. During his visit at the Institute, Professor Elman taught a course on “Classicism, Commerce & Society in Late Imperial China, 1400 – 1900” for postgraduate students. He also delivered a talk on “Sinophiles and Sinophobes: Medical Debates and Medical Philology in Tokugawa Japan”.