Prof. Menegon in China
Professor Eugenio Menegon has spent part of the fall (September-November) on research sabbatical in China, as a visiting fellow of the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies and its research section on Chinese-Western relations.
Besides continuing his archival research on Europeans in Beijing in the 17th-18th centuries (Qing dynasty), he has presented his research at several venues in the city: at the Beijing International Society, an association run by foreign diplomats in the Chinese capital; at the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, an institution affiliated with BU; at the Research Section of the Imperial Palace Museum; and at the Institute for Qing History, where he has lectured in one of the graduate student seminars.
He has also conducted library and digital research at the National Committee for the Compilation of Qing History, a mammoth project launched by the government to re-write the history of the last imperial dynasty.
In October, Professor Menegon also traveled to present his work at the Templeton Seminar in East Asian History of Science at Seoul National University, Korea; and at the Department of History of Macau University, in the former Portuguese colony, now a special PRC territory, where most of the Europeans in late imperial times resided or transited.
[PHOTO: Professor Menegon and Prof. Liu Wenpeng, General Secretary of the Qing History Compilation Committee, Beijing. The Committee’s offices occupy three floors of a skyscraper in China’s Sylicon Valley, near the major Chinese Universities, in Beijing’s Zhongguancun district].