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Minghui Hu

Minghui Hu   
Minghui Hu
    Title:  Assistant Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Concentration:  Asia and the Islamic World
    Email:  mhu@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-5270 Office
(831) 459-1924 Message
    Office:  536 Humanities 1
    Office Hours:  On leave 2009 - 2010
    Personal Page:  http://frodo.ucsc.edu/~mhu/

Courses Taught 
HIS-140B-01 - History of China, 1644-1911
HIS-194M-01 - Literati, Samurai, Yangban, 1600-1900
HIS-230A-01 - Readings in Late Imperial China
HIS-294-01 - Literati, Samurai, Yangban
HIS-40A-01 - Early Modern East Asia

Research Focus 
Late Imperial China (1600-1900); early modern sciences in China; China in the early modern world.

Long Description 
Minghui Hu received his Ph.D. from the department of history at UCLA in 2004. He has taught at California State University at Long Beach, University of California, Irvine, and served as the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of history, University of Chicago from 2003 to 2005.

Education History 
Ph.D., UCLA

Selected Publications 
“Impossible Choices: A Review Essay of Huang Yi-long, Liangtoushe: mingmo qingchu de diyidai tianzhu jiaotu (Two-headed Snakes: The First Generation of Catholic Converts in Late Ming and Early Qing China). Xinzhu: Guoli qinghua daxue chubanshe, 2005” International Journal of Asian Studies 4.2 (2007): 259-273.

"Review of Zhang Baichun’s The Europeanization of Astronomical Instruments in the Ming and Qing China (Chinese)." New Century History of Science Series, Volume 2. 397 pp. Illus. Shengyang: Liaoning Education Press, 2001, Isis 92.2, 2004.

"Provenance in Contest: Searching for the Origins of Jesuit Astronomy in Late Imperial China," The International History Review 24.1. March 2002: 1-36.

"Shiba shiji zai jinxiandai zhongguoshi de shuniu weizhi (The Pivotal turn to the Eighteenth Century in Modern Chinese History): Review of William Rowe’s Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China," Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001, Jindai zhongguoshi yanjiu tongxun (Newsletter for Modern Chinese History) 32, September 2001: 126-135.