Eugenio Menegon

Eugenio Menegon is an Associate Professor of Chinese History at Boston University.12 His academic focus includes Chinese-Western relations in late imperial times, Chinese religions and Christianity in China, Chinese science, intellectual history of Republican China, history of maritime Asia, and Chinese food history.1

Academic Background and Achievements

Menegon has published extensively on the history of Chinese-Western relations. He is the author of two books:

1. "Un solo Cielo. Giulio Aleni S.J., 1582-1649. Geografia, arte, scienza, religione dall'Europa alla Cina" (One Heaven. Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582-1649). Geography, art, science, religion from Europe to China)
2. "Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China"1

His second book received the 2011 Joseph Levenson Book Prize in Chinese Studies.1

Current Research

Menegon is currently working on a book project examining the daily life and political networking of European residents at the Qing court in Beijing during the 17th-18th centuries.1

Academic Positions and Affiliations

• Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History at Boston University13
• Affiliated Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College
• Faculty Associate at Boston University's Center for Global Christianity & Mission and Center for the Study of Asia
• Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University2

Previous Appointments

Menegon has held various research and teaching positions throughout his career, including:

• Research Fellow at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
• Junior and Senior Fellow at the BU Humanities Foundation
• An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
• Member in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
• Visiting scholar at multiple institutions in China, Italy, and the United States12

Teaching

At Boston University, Menegon teaches courses on the history of late imperial and modern China, the toolkit of the historian's craft, and the exploration of intercultural relations in pre-modern times.2

Eugenio Menegon's Chinese name is Mei Oujin (梅歐金).2