Department of History
Assistant Professor of Chinese History

Eugenio Menegon’s areas of interest include late imperial and modern Chinese history, Chinese-Western relations, Chinese religions and Christianity in China, Chinese science, and the intellectual history of Republican China. He is the author of an Italian language biography of Giulio Aleni (1582-1649), a Jesuit missionary in China and a pioneer in Chinese-Western cultural exchange (Un Solo Cielo [One Heaven], 1994), and of several essays on Chinese-Western cultural and religious interactions. His current book project, entitled Ancestors, Virgins and Friars, focuses on the localization of Christianity in late imperial China.

For more information see:      http://www.bu.edu/history/faculty.html

Courses:

Undergraduate:
World History I: Origins of Humanity to c. 1600 (CAS HI 175)
The Historian's Craft: Encounters in the Early Modern Era (CAS HI 200)
Introduction to Early Chinese History (CAS HI 389 )
Introduction to Modern Chinese History  (CAS HI 390)
Merchants, Pirates, Missionaries, and the State in Maritime Asia, 600-2000 (CAS HI 482) Continuity and Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (CAS HI 487)