Professor Menegon, Historian of China and Director of BUCSA, wins Two Fellowships at IAS and BC for Project on Europeans in Imperial Beijing
Professor Eugenio Menegon, Associate Professor of Chinese History and Director of the BU Center for the Study of Asia (Pardee School of Global Studies), was awarded two residential research fellowships for the academic year 2015-2016.
He will spend Fall 2015 as a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton [https://www.hs.ias.edu/]; and Spring 2016 as Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College [http://www.bc.edu/centers/iajs/].
Menegon is completing a book entitled “Amicitia Palatina: Court Networks and the Europeans in Imperial Beijing, 1700-1820.” The project focuses on the social, economic, and religious life of foreign experts at the Qing imperial court and how their experience illuminates the workings of global economic and cultural networks, as well as the daily transactions of power at the Chinese court [click here: http://blogs.bu.edu/emenegon/work-in-progress/]
As part of this project, in early June he will deliver a lecture entitled “A Micro-Historical Approach to Global China: The Daily Life of Europeans in Beijing in the Long Eighteenth Century” at the University of Cambridge (UK), as part of the series “Global China: New Approaches,” supported by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge: http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/news-events/eas/global-china/new-approaches-2015-06-11
Professor Menegon will then go on to do archival research in the UK (British Library and Bodleian Library), Vatican City (Archives of Propaganda Fide) and France (Archives nationales, Paris; and Archives de la Compagnie des Indes, Lorient, Brittany) between June and August.
The Yongzheng Emperor (r. 1723-1735) in European attire, Palace Museum, Beijing